Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raced across rubble-strewn back lots. Suddenly, he was face to face with Antoinette Duvernois, who had known him since he was a boy. She shrank back. He panted: "Don't be alarmed! I never fire on unarmed civilians." He ran on, past a staring millworker. "The Russians are after me!" he shouted. Across the railroad yards, he staggered into two bicycle policemen, sank to his knees. Tears streamed down his face. "Mercy!" he sobbed. "The Russians-they are everywhere...
Bypassing the peace delegates, Boss Mao had drafted an ultimatum, sent it south to Nanking by special messenger. Its chief demand: within four days, the Nationalist armies must be transferred to Communist command. Otherwise Red troops, strengthened in the past months by fresh conscripts and regular reinforcements from Manchuria, would strike across the Yangtze...
...Street & Smith was living in its lurid past-and losing money-when energetic Publisher Allen L. Grammer, a white-haired alumnus of Curtis Publishing Co., took over in 1938. Grammer soon set about converting the outfit from pulps to slicks. In two years he built Mademoiselle to 300,000 circulation, later added the other women's magazines. Today the only traces of a man's world around Street & Smith are Astounding Science Fiction and two slicks, Air Trails Pictorial and Pic Sports Quarterly. Grammer says they are thriving. But in case they should ever weaken, S. & S. would...
Even flying much slower than sound, airplanes can run afoul of shock waves. The air crowding past them has to go faster to get around their curved surfaces. If, in its hurry, the air hits the speed of sound, shock waves form locally. Good design has steadily raised the speed at which an airplane can fly without trouble from local shock waves. But there is a limit: the speed of sound itself.* At this critical speed, an airplane's motion is sure to generate shock waves...
...Last week the Keeley Institute of Dwight Ill., in a survey of 13,471 alcoholic patients given "the cure" over the past 18 years, found that by occupation, farmers topped its list of drinkers. Others in the top ten, in order: salesmen, merchants, mechanics, clerks, lawyers, foremen and managers, railroaders, physicians, manufacturers...