Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three engines burning furiously, an Air Force Atlas missile shot into the sky on a successful but limited (3,000 miles) test flight. It was the third fully powered (360,000-lb. thrust) flight for the 6,000-mile-plus ICBM. In preparation: a full-range shot, early this fall...
...Land O'Lakes district, gives away no points to Ike. "I am every bit as good a fisherman," he says firmly, "as my brother." Both are ferociously intense painters, Ike in oil and Milton in painstaking watercolors. Before a slipped disk took him off the fairways, Milton shot an unorthodox but Ike-worthy game of golf (high 80s). Now and then the brothers get together with friends for an evening of bridge, but Milton, who has never progressed beyond the Culbertson quick-trick count, is admittedly overmatched...
...clock one morning, a Renault Frégate drew up before the main motor pool of the Paris police, and four Algerians jumped out. They killed the sentry outside, burst into the guardroom, shot three more policemen, then tossed homemade bombs into the depot's gas tanks. A few minutes later, the central police switchboard came alive with emergency calls from all over Paris. At Vincennes, a group of Algerians, attacking a munitions factory, killed one policeman and wounded another...
...home was a dumpy little house in Van Nuys, a neighborhood where not even an extra would want to live between pictures. Rhoda liked it there with all the other homebodies, and for a while Ernie liked it too. But then everybody wanted Ernie to be a big shot, and at the same time everybody wanted him to be Marty. On the set they went around saying, "Jeez, what a real sweetie, just like Marty...
...cliches of classroom science films -the white-coated chemist making voodoo, the spectacular, cymbal-scored shot of steel being poured or an oil well gushing, the concluding tide of coronation music as the sponsoring firm is identified -are familiar to every schoolboy who has slumped, bored but gratefully relaxed, through a reel or two of respite from the chore of learning. High school science teachers have tolerated these technological travelogues presumably because they are "visual aids to education," and the phrase sounds up-to-date; college science profs have ignored them almost completely...