Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closed in Frankfurt's Rhine-Main Airport one night last week; the administration building's lights could not be seen across the field. Near the runway, in a red and white checkered trailer, three G.I. technicians bent over their separate receivers-Search Scope, Middle Scope, Final Scope...
...feet, 18 miles away, Search Scope picked up a moving white dot. It was a C-47 from the U.S. Air Force's Berlin airlift. Carefully watching the calibrations which told him the plane's altitude, speed and distance, the G.I. at Search Scope called over his microphone to the pilot: "Calling Easy Charlie three nine ... You will descend 500 feet a minute ... Fly two five seven degrees...
Masterpiece is hardly a strong enough word to describe this French import. Other Gallie efforts have been praised highly in the last decade, but none of them can possibly match the broad scope and multiple perfections of "Les Enfants," a product of the German Occupation which contains, among other things, a notable expression of the tragedy of spiritual frustration and isolation...
Rising costs had another pocket-sized monthly breathing hard. Starting with the July issue, Reader's Scope (circ. around 300,000), published by leftish Leverett Gleason, will come out every other month...
Richard A. Gregg's short prize-winning poem, "To Icarus," stands well above the rest of Signature's writing in both scope and technical competence. Gregg, a past contributor to the magazine, has a gift for the manipulation of sound in poetic expression, which can be seen in such lines as "Proud parabolas upon the deep/Receding blue . . ." It is a pity that only one of his poems has been printed in an issue so barren of this kind of dynamic and beautiful writing. Joan Hyde's atmospheric "Night Picture" communicates through precise visual detail, but her other poem is less...