Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When I was a student I had two dreads: math and science. For science I wrote the formulae on my fingernails; for mathematics I wrote them on a circular piece of paper, slipped under the crystal of my wristwatch. Result: I never flunked. Note to students: I have not patented these cutlets...
Project Sherwood, the secret U.S. program to achieve controlled thermonuclear (atomic fusion) power, came ever so slightly into the open last week. After attending a secret conference of 350 Sherwood men at Gatlinburg, Tenn., Dr. Edward Teller, leading authority on thermonuclear processes, delivered a complicated paper before an unclassified meeting of the American Nuclear Society at Chicago...
...Nathan Hale: "I have only one head, and what better cause to risk it for than this?" Others, like Fetter Moen, an Oslo insurance man who, at 43, found him self under the steel whips of the Gestapo, said the simple truth. In pinpricks on a roll of paper, Moen wrote: "Was interrogated twice. Was whipped . . . Am terribly afraid of pain. But no fear of death...
...paper also won unusual tribute from a murderer. The day after his arrest in 1935 for killing two women, Dr. Buck Ruxton scribbled a note that he gave to a friend with strict orders to pass it to News of the World only after his death. Ruxton went to the gallows seven months later, protesting his innocence to the last. The next Sunday the paper was able to settle readers' bets as to his guilt by publishing the note-a full confession. Scotland Yard has also had reason to respect the paper's passion for finicky detail...
...Technique. This dry technique of telling a juicy story, marrying the British gift for understatement with the British craving for crimes of excess, was devised by a young barrister named George Riddell, who joined the paper at the turn of the century, when its circulation was 30,000. Riddell soon became managing editor, catered to other favored British tastes by adding big side dishes of sports coverage (including quoits, darts and pigeon racing) and contests, plus a light helping of political comment. "We're just like the Old Testament," Riddell told his critics. "We report crime and punishment." Riddell...