Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlantic Ocean (see cut). From the Navy's far-flung detection posts come reports of unidentified contacts, instantly plotted with diamond-shaped metal markers. This wall-sized chart is televised daily to Atlantic Fleet Commander Jerauld Wright, Admiral U.S.N.; top-secret reports on sightings are typed on red paper, circulated among the proper officials of the Pentagon-and the typewriter ribbons are locked up after use to prevent unauthorized people from examining the ribbon imprints. This is only one phase of ASW (Antisubmarine Warfare). The task of detecting, hunting-and wartime, killing-of enemy submarines is a newly emphasized...
Justice-in-a-Jiffy. A short, stocky man, who presided over every kind of case, from the unsuccessful libel suit brought by Harold Laski against the paper that accused him of advocating violent revolution to the treason trial of Klaus Fuchs and the sensational cases of the "Chalk Pit Murder" and the "Vampire," he soon became known as the "Tiger." Green young barristers would sit up all night polishing their briefs before daring to appear before him in the morning and risk hearing him say, "Let's skip the rest and hear your last point, please." Even rich...
...carried an article urging the faculty on to greater and greater efforts in behalf of the "socialist reform" of the university. Among the signatures at the bottom was that of the university's rector, 63-year-old Josef Hämel. But on the very same page the paper carried a news item of quite a different sort. Hämel, said the story in almost unbelieving tones, "misusing the confidence put in him by the government," had fled to join "the atomic-war strategists...
...system because it produces higher tar yields for longer cigarettes. Another argument rages over what to report. American Tobacco measures "total solids" in smoke. Competitors have found that "solids" include tar, nicotine and some moisture; thus the advantage goes to American Tobacco's Hit Parade brand, whose tissue-paper-like filter absorbs more moisture than competing cellulose acetate filters. Hit Parade also claims "over 400,000 filter traps"; Lorillard says it could claim millions of traps for its fast-rising Kent but does not, holding that the number of traps means nothing...
...sexy bestsellers talk about the sordid or tragic facts of life in staccato sociology, couch jargon or four-letter words, Lolita is the more shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny. It is (in many of its pages) a Medusa's head with trick paper snakes, and its punning comedy as well as its dark poetics will disappoint the smut hounds-a solemn breed...