Word: soar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pieces of this hunger, but none devotes itself entirely to the whole vast need." Catering to U.S. cultural hunger comes easily to Horizon. Its parent is the bustling American Heritage Publishing Co. (TIME, Feb. 17), which overhauled the little-known historical quarterly, American Heritage, in 1954. saw it soar as a bright new bimonthly to a circulation of more than 300,000. Unlike Heritage, which was begun on an initial investment of $65,000, Horizon blossomed forth after a ripe overture of expensive nourishes and drum pounding...
...convey the briny sense of evil that Callas brings to the role, she demonstrated again that hers is perhaps the finest dramatic-soprano voice in the land. Perfectly responsive to the opera's somber emotional inflections, her voice could sink effortlessly to a haunted, house-filling pianissimo or soar in gorgeously shifting gradations to cleave through the orchestra with ringing power. The least impressed person in the house was Singer Farrell herself. "The poor audience," she said after her grueling performance. "Medea just keeps on singing...
...completed lagoon restaurant (opposite), done with Architect Joaquin Alvarez Ordoñez, Candela uses undulating folds of great elegance. For his Santa Fe bandstand, done with Architect Mario Pani, he combined six hyperbolic paraboloids to form a 40-ft. cantilever of shelter. Candela has designed another bandstand that will soar...
...consisting initially of a spattering of dots. To connect the dots and get the picture's outlines clearer, contestants must answer questions. When the picture is guessed, e.g., the face of Napoleon, the winner is rewarded at a base-pay scale of $20 per unconnected dots. This may soar with such refinements as Double Dotto, Triple Dotto and Double Double Dotto. Home players can get in on the act by giving their answers via telephone...
...considerable area with gamma rays, neutrons and radioactive exhaust, and a new, unpoisoned site may have to be found for the next takeoff. But designers of nuclear rockets do not worry much about this sort of thing. In Nucleonics, a group of experts tell about current projects to soar into space by atom power...