Word: saucepans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father temporarily deserts him. For young Philip Rice, the death of his mother is a matter of simple grief. For his father, Alec Rice, the death has another aspect: he feels inner relief at being free of a "dictator who rarely raised her voice and never threw a saucepan." Alec chucks his truck driving, drifts off on a holiday after shipping Philip to his Uncle Adrian, a baker in Wales...
...fear of war, which transcend economics, may yet make nuclear energy available for peaceful purposes. "In fact," said Hafstad, "the history of technological development is replete with examples of civilian devices the development costs of which were borne by the military. Take such a lowly item as an aluminum saucepan. How long would it have taken to collect from housewives in dimes and quarters, the millions of dollars that have gone into the [wartime] study of the metallurgy and fabrication problems of aluminum? Or take airplanes themselves. Would the Post Office Department, for example, have been able to find...
...sailors came ashore. As soon as they landed scores of Italians gathered around them chattering and laughing. Suddenly Palmira, curious to know what the fuss was about, walked through the dusk to the edge of the crowd. As she stood there, an American sailor "with a hat like a saucepan" thrust some chocolate and a carton of cigarettes into her hands. Before she could say anything he was gone...