Word: rocketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heisenberg had declined, but he named others who had not. While the U.S. had imported over 200 German scientists, mostly in the rocket and aviation field (TIME, Dec. 9), there were still thousands of cold, hungry scientists in Germany to whom Russia's offer might well appeal. If they went to Russia they would take with them the kind of mass technological know-how, theoretical and practical, from rockets to railways, which only the U.S. and Germany (and, to a lesser extent, Britain) had before...
Afterwards, everybody felt better. Until then, pro hockey just hadn't been its old unruly self this season. The 1947 accent was on razzle-dazzle attack, not rough & tumble. The man of the year - Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard - was not the biggest thug on ice but a shy fellow with a sure...
...Montreal's largest hockey crowd of the season (12,674). Once during the evening, against the arch-rival Toronto Maple Leafs, the crowds got what they came to see. There was a pass, a swift attack by Richard on the cage, a flick of his stick; and The Rocket had scored. The stands rang with cowbells, cheers and whistles...
...made a runaway of this season's scoring race (with 36 goals, 22 assists), though for a while one rival club assigned two men to guard him - as frank a tribute as baseball's right-side shift against Batsman Ted Williams. They gave up that strategy when Rocket-Richard decoyed his defenders out of the play to give his mates a better shot at the cage...
...partisan Montreal, fans speak of The Rocket in the same breath with hockey's immortal Howie Morenz. Other hockey towns, which have heckled him by calling out "Ouvrez la porte, Richard," are now ready to agree that he is more than a wartime wonder...