Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surroundings might have caused him to scratch his head thoughtfully, for here wasn't the glamour to which he was accustomed, the glamour of a big Saturday game with all the trappings. In the place of cheerleaders and huge concrete stadium were other members of the team sitting on the four-tiered wooden bleacher wrapped in parkas against the cold...
...every four a master's degree. With his talent monopoly, Hughes has repeatedly outbid some of the biggest U.S. firms for contracts, and been able to deliver. On the fire-control system, for example, the Air Force gave Hughes a year to develop the project from scratch; nine months later, an Air Force pilot flying a jet fitted with the prototype unit shot down an unseen target plane automatically...
...Scratch, Bite, Claw. The penny has its obverse, and the other side of Frankie can be a shining thing. He has a Janizary's loyalty for his few close friends. Says one: "It's sort of wonderful but frightening, like having a pet cheetah." Says Don Maguire: "You"can call him any hour of the night and tell him you've got the flu, and he will bring you minestrone." When Judy Garland was in a Boston sanitarium, Sinatra sent her flowers every day for a year, and once sent a chartered plane full of her friends...
...Walter Reed's Prosthetics Research Laboratory (started from scratch in 1945) is one of the world's most famed designers of artificial limbs. From pioneering in cineplasty (placing hooks in stump muscles to work limbs, so that artificial arms can now be lifted over the head), it has gone on to plastic materials that look like human skin. The "gloves" on its artificial hands now bear fingerprints which must be registered with the FBI. Latest gimmick: putting a human-type pigment in the plastic, so that the hands, instead of turning green, retain their color even under fluorescent...
...impractical." As the AEC's "vice president in charge of atoms for peace," Libby is the American responsible for charting the tricky path away from national preoccupation with the destructive atom to international cooperation for harnessing the atom's untold goodness. "We have only begun to scratch the surface," says he. "We can advance in every direction." Old Story, New Story. The story of the warlike atom is not new-the dark but necessary secrecy, the uncounted billions spent for uncounted numbers of atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, atomic cannon, nuclear submarines and still-secret devices which may exceed...