Word: puts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pushing their strategic frontiers closer to the North Pole. At Churchill and Frobisher Bay, three hours' jet flight from the Pole, growling bulldozers lengthened runways to accommodate the Strategic Air Command's jet tankers. At remote island outposts, stevedoring crews labored through the pale summer nights to put ashore the year's supply of food, fuel and spare parts for DEW line bases, airfields and weather stations, while skippers checked anxiously for the latest ice reports from the straits to the north...
...before a West German Bundeswehr draft board stepped handsome Wolf Rudiger Hess, 21, conscientious objector and son of convicted Nazi War Criminal Rudolf Hess, now whiling away his life in Berlin's dark Spandau Prison. Young Hess explained that he is loath to put in his legal twelve-month stint in West Germany's army. With bitter Teutonic irony, he enlarged upon his refusal to be drafted: "My conscience forbids me to serve those who judged and condemned my father. Moreover, in performing military service, which might be construed as aiding in the preparation for a next...
...kaleidoscope of purple, orange, red, lilac, buff, chestnut, violet and black. After the turn of the century, osprey eggs were so much in demand that a set of three brought up to $140-and the bird was on its way out in Britain.* In 1916 the British government put ospreys on the protected list (current penalty: up to 28 days in jail, $70 per egg), but it was too late. The last pair in the British Isles had died or emigrated...
...ramshackle Chicago laboratory, an earnest, imaginative young scientist named Emil Grubbe gazed at the greenish glow coming from a Crookes vacuum tube he had made. He put his left hand on the tube. It was warm. Grubbe (pronounced Grew-bay) was satisfied that the tube (useful only in scientific experiments) was working right. By summer's end, a severe skin irritation appeared on Grubbe's left hand. Dermatologists had no idea what it was. Then Grubbe heard that, from similar tubes, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen had generated a new and mysterious form of radiation-X rays. "I knew then...
...young pitching staff, and Third Baseman Jim Gilliam (.318) always seems to be on base. But the biggest man of all in the Dodger infield is that old pro-and beloved Brook-lynite-First Baseman Gil Hodges, 35, who can still field like a vacuum cleaner and at .293 put the ball game away with his bat. Last week in the first game against the Giants, he slammed a two-run homer; in the second, he slapped a game-winning double. Later, against the Chicago Cubs, Hodges daringly advanced from first to second on a long fly to center...