Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Antarctica, Rubin revealed that a Russian party trekked about 1,500 miles inland to the "pole of inaccessibility," setting off dynamite charges in the ice to make seismic soundings every 30-50 miles. Echoes showed continuous land instead of a complex of islands or submerged mountains. The Russians say the land ranges from 2,500 to 12,000 ft. above sea level, with ice up to 3,000 ft. thick covering the high points...
...orchestra worth its salt, say the authors, protects the first trumpet by hiring an assistant "to take over in prolonged difficult passages." But for the budget-ridden orchestra they have another, possibly facetious, suggestion: "It might be possible to dispense with the assistant if the trumpeter wore a pilot's pressure suit, which could be surreptitiously inflated by a switch on the conductor's desk...
...shirtsleeves for the day's work. American Motors headquarters is perhaps the most relaxed and informal in Detroit's auto industry. Romney often leaves his modest office (18 ft. by 18 ft.) to drop in on executives down the corridor. When he has anything important to say, he is not above calling them together, sitting down on the back of a chair to give a talk...
Toward the end, Trotsky's life became a charade of frustration and fear, and Wolfe's melodramatic style is well suited to convey the unreality of it all. Trotsky liked to say that the snowy volcanoes he could see from his windows were not extinct but dormant. But could the Red Napoleon really believe that his walled house was an Elba, not a St. Helena? He had tasted power, and missed it so much that he was delighted when simple Mexicans thought of him as a prince who had fallen (hence Wolfe's title...
Power said the strength of the United States, relative to that of the Soviet Union, stands to decline over the next few years and added: "A tremendous disservice... is rendered the American people when people say there is a nuclear statlemate. We have the deterrent posture today. We can lose it tomorrow...