Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roof of the presidential Palace (with a lot of machine guns) are innumerable bottles of water being turned into "medicine" by the sun. The color of the glass determines the specific purpose. When one of the President's associates falls sick, Martínez prescribes a suitable bottle, and the patient invariably reports a miraculous cure. Such reports persuaded the President to treat his 13-year-old son for acute appendicitis. Operated upon too late, he died...
...crisis of his career. His people are cowed again. His official relations with the U.S. are cordial (he judiciously declared war on the Axis the day after Pearl Harbor). Still secure in his fortress-palace, he paces his bedroom through the night while gun crews keep watch on the roof and new-made ghosts glare in through the windows...
Best and least batty of the exhibits are Emily Blachman, who runs the boarding house, and her husband Jim. Emily (engagingly played by Mary Philips) is a bohemianized F.F.V., bighearted, bossy, shrewd, who keeps a roof over her family while the blustering, big-shot Jim (well played by Rhys Williams) tries for the sky. A familiar rudder-& -sails combination, the Blachmans ship a lot of water, ride put a lot of domestic storms...
...large radio public agreed with the Carnegie Hall audience that CBS had not been gypped. The symphony rolled out on the U.S. air waves, streamlined and spectacular. It had all the usual Shostakovich features, including special, de luxe, noncollapsible climaxes, probably the most efficient roof-raisers of their type known to the trade. Conductor Artur Rodzinski put it through its power-dives with a veteran test pilot's skill. At times the orchestra glittered with satire; at others it seemed to strum itself like a giant balalaika...
...radio beam follows the earth's curvature, instead of sailing into space, because it bounces along a reflecting roof of electrically charged particles, called the Kennelly -Heaviside layer, which blankets the earth's outer atmosphere. Physicists have measured the height of this layer, varying from 60 to 1,200 mi., by bouncing radio waves off it and catching their echo on a receiver. The first hint of radio's possible usefulness as a ground-level detector came when experimenters noticed that a ship moving between a transmitter and receiver interfered with radio waves. The basic radar instrument...