Word: previewed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Applied Psychology. In London, a busker gave theatergoers outside the Old Vic's performance of Oedipus a sly musical preview: A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother...
Many jittery readers, wondered whether the Bikini atomic-bomb test had been given a secret preview. Answer: a definite no. It would take many times 20,000 tons of TNT (the equivalent of the atomic bomb to be dropped at Bikini) to match the earthquake in the Aleutian Deep...
...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and their clothes did splendidly in a preview of the first postwar silly season (June to September). A sudden spring tide of pressagents' panegyrations washed them each to glory: the multimillionaire sportsman to a place on the "best-dressed men" list of the Custom Tailors Guild of America; wife Jeanne to a place on the Fashion Academy's "best-dressed women" list. Jeanne, an heiress in her own right,* was one of those the Academy acclaimed for somehow managing to dress well on a budget...
Selected guests of the Navy last week got a preview of this technique of battle-watching. They sat in a darkened gymnasium in Washington while three television-equipped airplanes took off from nearby fields. On television screens the spectators saw what the planes saw: they flew by proxy to Baltimore, watching a brush fire on the way. They made a sight-seeing tour of Washington, spying on the traffic in the streets. At one point, eleven Navy fighters made a mock attack. If a battle had been in progress, the spectators could have eyewitnessed it from their comfortable chairs...
...think that an atomic war will be just another war. This week such ostrich notions were rudely jolted. One World or None (McGraw-Hill; $1)' "a report on the full meaning of the atomic bomb" by 17 scientists (including five Nobel prizewinners), generals and pundits, gave a preview of World War III. One World or None is a calm, hair-raising warning of swiftly approaching disaster. Americans who would like to die a natural death can read it with profit...