Word: popping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most safety directors, Karsch owes his job to a "regrettable incident." On May 15, 1947, when White Sands was young, a German V-2 swooped down at 3,500 m.p.h. and landed three miles from Alamogordo (pop. 5,000). Alamogordans had been hardened by years of practice-bombing and an atom-bomb explosion. One woman called up the Army to "get that thing out of my backyard...
...only a fortnight later, a V-2 went wild internationally. It hit four miles from the center of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (pop. 48,881), made a fearful bang and dug a crater 24 feet deep and 40 feet in diameter. No one was hurt, and the people of Juarez, enjoying their spring fiesta, thought the bang was part of the show. But the diplomatic repercussions were painful. The White Sands brass, covered with cold sweat, told Karsch to work out a system for riding herd on rockets...
With a resounding pop, Italy blew off the lid that Mussolini had clamped on modern sculpture more than a score of years ago. At Varese, in the first all-Italian sculpture competitions in many a year, top honors went to a thin-faced, little-known Venetian named Alberto Viani for one of his highly abstract nudes...
...Manhattan last week, a bouncy brunette from Fond du Lac, Wis. (pop. 27,209) had a wonderful time. She sat entranced at Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days, went backstage at Ken Murray's Blackouts, listened to jazz at Bop City, danced the Charleston at a teen-age party, sipped a horse's neck (ginger ale and lemon peel) at the Stork Club, took a moonlight ride through Central Park in a convertible with the top down, and burned her tongue on a nightcap of hot chocolate at Rumpelmayer's. It was the kind...
...could open the veins of my right arm for that man." But Footman Charley is momentarily too busy to take Edie seriously. He is hovering outside the dying butler's bedroom, waiting for the brief coma between life and death when he can safely order young Albert to pop in and swipe the old man's private notebooks, priceless treasures of information about how to work the castle pork barrel-which guests can be touched for tips, what pennies can be pocketed undetected, what overcharges can be got away with...