Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 science, bursting with urgency. The top U.S. antisubmariner is an admiral who has proved his versatility as a fighter pilot, on the bridge of a fighting ship...
Thirty-five minutes after take-off at 4:05 a.m., Flight 607E radioed a routine report that it was about 100 miles out over the Atlantic. When a next report, due every 5° of longitude, did not come in, a "phase of uncertainty" was declared, during which all stations and planes were urged to look and listen for the plane. Half an hour later, an emergency was declared. Ten hours passed before an R.A.F. Coastal Command plane, scouring the sea some 40 minutes out from the Irish coast, spotted traces of oil. Coming down to 100 ft., the pilot...
...into the dusky sidestreets of Manhattan, when the movies killed vaudeville and when the movies in turn were nearly killed by TV-each time, the gloomy mourned the past and doubted the future of show business. Yet each time, show business continued brighter, gayer, more interesting than before. Each phase of its irrepressible evolution reappeared in the next: the theater had more than its share of Barnum, the movies committed more Follies than Florenz Ziegfeld, and TV is in effect bringing vaudeville back to life. Today, show business is bigger, richer, more fascinating than ever. To report the world...
...must still design theaters, stations, airport buildings, must approve every private venture, find materials, supervise all projects. For the city's 3,000-seat cathedral, he plans a tepee of concrete poles 220 ft. high, sheathed in translucent plastic and stained glass. "Brasilia," says Niemeyer, "begins a new phase in my work, more geometrical, more simple, more monumental." Post-Brasilia outlook: "I have not thought about it. I suppose I will have to start my life all over again...
...BATON FOR THE CONDUCTOR (219 pp.)-T. L W. Hubbard-Houghfon Mifflin ($3). ] "You see," the young man told the psychiatrist, "[my uncle] began as Sir Henry Wood. Then he passed through a Beecham phase, a Boult phase and a Sargent phase . . . After that [he] began adding new tricks with each conductor he studied...