Word: saucerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customer and a practice unworthy of American labor," gave up trying to reform its patrons and help. Waiters, though they got a raise, had proved incapable of purging their features of all hope. And most customers had been plain miserable -uncomfortable if they slipped a clandestine coin under a saucer, more uncomfortable if they didn't. Said the C. & O. sternly: "Too many persons lack the courage to participate in an experiment that breaks with custom...
...terms of immediacy of interest most of TIME'S news subjects are precisely the same as those that confront all U.S. editors: Senator McCarthy's hunt for Communists, the Cold War, the flying saucer legends, the pensions strike at Chrysler, the shooting of Charlie Binaggio, the high level of steel production, etc. Most of TIME'S stories, like most newspaper stories, concern spot news...
...your article "Saucer-Eyed Dragons" [TIME, April 17]: It seems to me that you are just another magazine that is afraid to be different. You call the flying saucers "fantastic." When is the world going to realize that nothing can be fantastic in this age we live in? ... Let's stop fooling ourselves. Your magazine has no more right to say the flying saucers are fantastic than I have to say they are real, but at least it's better to be prepared than surprised...
...checks of the second billowed and flattened as he breathed. His hands were fists, his feet landed heavily on the asphalt. Across the road, a little girl let go of her balloon and it soared up quickly. "Look," one of the bicycle boys said, "there goes a flying saucer," and everyone, except the lonely runners, laughed...
Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express last month. It reported that the wreckage of a saucer had been found on a Mexican mountainside. The finder was a California explosives salesman named Ray Dimmick. The saucer was "powered by two motors," Dimmick told the Her-Ex. "It was about 46 feet in diameter . . . built of some strange material resembling aluminum." The pilot, he said, was dead. He was a "midget 23 inches tall with a big head and a small body." The Her-Ex story had been picked up by an editorial writer over a convivial round with Dimmick. Next...