Word: shrouds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battle for Outer Space In his closely guarded headquarters in Los Angeles, Air Force Major General Bernard Schriever, 46, keeps hidden under a shroud a model of one of the intercontinental ballistic missiles which are his special concern. Less and less under wraps, in recent weeks, is slim Ben Schriever himself, and the Pacific Coast has gradually become aware that he runs something called the Western Development Division, a $3 billion Air Force project for developing, testing and possibly operating the H-bomb-carrying, 5,000-mile ICBM. Consequently, the experts took notice last week when Ben Schriever made...
...Paris, and the city's restless tempo was slowed to a funereal rustle as Frenchmen filed into la Salle de l'Horlage at the Quai d'Orsay to stare at the bier of the illustrious pactmaker. Aristide Briand. All Paris seemed to be wrapped in a shroud of melancholy over the passing of the great democrat-all but a luncheon party of American. British and Swedish bankers who waited in edgy silence at the Hotel du Rhin to confer with an autocratic emperor of finance. "Match King'' Ivar Kreuger. If they had cause for melancholy...
...columns, and in his clear, quiet prose, Berger wrote the most moving account of all. At last, wrote Berger, "it was nine minutes after ten under a brilliant summer sky when the Andrea Doria, in a final plunge, went down in 225 feet of water, her hull glistening, her shroud a rain of spray caused by her violent death . . . There was no sound from the rescue ships, only a murmur, a sound...
...whereabouts of John Paul Jones's corpse was a mystery. After his death in Paris from nephritis in 1792, the body of the Scot who fathered the U.S. Navy was prepared for shipment to the U.S. The limbs were encased in tinfoil; the body was wrapped in a shroud and then was placed in a sealed, straw-and alcohol-filled lead casket. But the U.S. frugally refused to pay the freight. Hero Jones was unceremoniously buried in Paris' obscure St. Louis Cemetery, where he lay undisturbed, despite sporadic efforts over 113 years to find his body...
Helen of Troy (Warner). "Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, wrote Thomas Hey wood, "who, living, had no roof to shroud his head." Two other cities, Rome and Hollywood, which care more about the poet's capacity to turn a profit than a phrase, have recently made an uneasy truce before the walls of Troystrictly, of course, for the sake of plunder...