Word: sauceritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thing is eight feet of reproducing vegetable in the form of a man, presumably from another planet, who is not vulnerable to bullets or fire and is finally electrocuted. He arrives in a 20,000-ton flying saucer, so you know what to look...
...fear, furthermore, that the new tray may also serve in intramural "flying saucer" experiments, and perhaps even in post-prandial roulette games...
...flying saucers, said Physicist Liddel, were actually giant plastic balloons called Skyhooks, which the Navy has been sending aloft since 1947 with electronic instruments to record cosmic rays. As the 100-ft. balloons soar higher & higher (maximum height: 19 miles) they expand, and are often pushed along by high-altitude winds at speeds up to 200 m.p.h. When seen from below, particularly when reflecting light rays from its underside, a Skyhook looks exactly like a big saucer...
...truth was that the public had never really been kept in the dark about Skyhooks. Reporting in April 1949, after a two-year investigation of flying-saucer stories, the Air Force had suggested clusters of Skyhooks as one source of the saucer rumors. But for some reason, known only to Naval bureaucracy, no one had ever before given a full explanation of how they looked at high altitudes, or furnished photographic evidence...
...broken "on the wheel of a dream"; the night wind passes "like a sail across/ A blind man's eye"; an old house "looks as though the walls had cried themselves/ To sleep"; a happy character "sits and purrs/ As though the morning were a saucer of milk"; the fields of grain move "like a lion's mane"; flowers gather "like pilgrims in the aisles of the sun"; the morning leaves "the sunlight on my step like any normal/ Tradesman." Fry's most persistent and most moving theme is the perpetual dialogue between despair and hope...