Word: sagebrush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rose devoted most of the evening to considering possible ways of extracting energy from a fusion process involving deuterium, which has the advantage that it is as easily obtainable as "sagebrush in the West." Deuterium, popularly known as "heavy hydrogen," is hydrogen with an extra neutron and can be removed from sea water...
...when he bought a long-defunct weekly, the Territorial Enterprise, in 1952 and resurrected it with an editorial policy of "benevolent backwardness" and "low moral tone, high alcoholic content." Recently, the onetime diarist of New York society, jaded at 58, has been edging away from Virginia City's sagebrush and saloons. Last week his unlikely association with the Old West was at an end. For some $40,000-a cut rate price for a weekly with a 6,785 circulation -Beebe disposed of the Territorial Enterprise to a stubby Broadway promoter named Jack Tell...
...curse begets an active plot line, part of it borrowed from a Faulkner short story. But Condon's rendering of sagebrush legend is only fitfully funny. Proof that the author himself knows that something is wrong is that on almost every page he stops to wave at friends in the crowd. A street in Paris, for instance, is not too slyly titled "Rue Artbuch Wald...
...Only Man. The dashing legend surrounding the Earp brothers-Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan-has been debunked before, but not from this special feminine viewpoint. That is what lends interest to this sagebrush history, based largely on the reminiscences of the late Allie Sullivan Earp, who sat down with Author Waters in 1936 to recall the days when her family's menfolk were the scourge of Tombstone, Ariz...