Word: pinwheels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been able to probe deeper and deeper through the Milky Way toward the galaxy's center. Recently, Dutch Astronomers G. W. Rougoor and J. H. Oort of Leiden Observatory reported that they had been able to peer into the mysterious nucleus itself. They found there a strange pinwheel of rapidly spinning hydrogen...
...Fiery Pinwheel. Behind these out-streaming clouds Rougoor and Oort found a ring of hydrogen about 300 light-years wide and encircling the galaxy's center at a distance of 1,600 lightyears. It appears to be revolving at a good clip (600,000 m.p.h.). Inside it is a band of almost empty space; then comes a rotating disk of hydrogen whose density increases toward the center. Neither ring nor disk appears to be moving outward. They are like the solid part of a fireworks pinwheel, which spins rapidly and throws off spirals of sparks...
...Pinwheel Aurora. Now the volcano roared: one-armed Danny Inouye. victor with more than 111,000 votes-the most ever accorded any Hawaiian-rushed joyously into the Honolulu streets, kicked off his shoes and danced, and lit up a chain of firecrackers in the traditional Chinese celebration of good luck. At Bill Quinn's headquarters on Kapiolani Boulevard, campaign workers broke out the soda pop and Primo beer, as a four-piece, aloha-shirted band hammered out Latin tunes with a fierce beat. With each bulletin feeding new totals into Quinn's narrow plurality, came still more excitement...
...biography of Barney Ross (Cameron Mitchell), onetime lightweight (1933) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion of the world.* The story starts with Barney's famous victory over Jimmy McLarnin, describes his wastrel ways as champion, and soon comes to his downfall under the whirling assault of the human pinwheel, Henry Armstrong. In the next few years, as the film tells the story, Barney gambles away his restaurant business and (for the time being) the affection of his best girl (Dianne Foster), winds up in the Marines during World...
...book suggests less how Dylan Thomas made a poem than how he made a living. But even as he fell back on lecturing for money to radio listeners and the matronly bands of U.S. "culture-vultures," as he called them, Poet Thomas whirled his economic crutch like a pinwheel. These pieces testify to his roving eye, roguish humor and beery vision of the human condition. He can draw a third-person self-portrait as accurately as a brilliant cartoonist or observant cop: "He's five foot six and a half. Thick blubber lips; snub nose; curly mouse-brown hair...