Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dismissed Stalin's phony account of the civil war and talked of "party leaders of that time who were wrongly declared to have been enemies of the people." Adding insult to injury, Mikoyan named Khrushchev's liquidated predecessor Kossior as one such and asserted, to the sound of laughter, that "Ukrainian historians will be found who will write a history of the emergence and development of the Ukrainian socialist state better than some Moscow historians." The speech, opening up the whole case against Stalin, and by indirection the complicity of his associates, was a sensation...
...love. But Hollywood, Philadelphia and Ruritania are far easier to mix on film than they are in fact: so pat a plot raised the question whether two hearts were meeting or merely two dazzling luminaries being drawn to each other. The gala celebrations at Monaco last week began to sound like a Graustark script cynically brought up to date by Ben Hecht. Or so it seemed in the beginning...
...raked over in court. When Shaw died at an un-mellowed 94 in 1950, he had made a bequest to provide a handsome subsidy to renovate the English alphabet. A hater of diphthongs and illogical pronunciations, Alphabetterer Shaw wanted the ABCs stretched to 40 letters on a one-sound, one-letter plan. Tart-tongued Lady Astor took one look at her old friend's idea and pronounced it ridiculous. The British Museum, one of Shaw's three institutional heirs, now wants the court to quash Shaw's bizarre bequest on the ground that a newfangled alphabet would...
...heroic, traditional act of bailing out with a parachute is getting less and less popular as airplanes fly faster and higher. Pilots have landed alive (though in poor condition) after bailing out above the speed of sound (TIME, Nov. 21), but according to experts of the Office of Naval Research, no ejection-seat and parachute combination can save a pilot flying more than 1,900 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft. Less speed would be fatal at lower altitudes, because the thicker air would hit the pilot with a harder decelerating jolt...
...patched like an inner tube. "After I invented it, I wanted to know why it worked," he explains. The search led him to Paris' National Library and books of 19th century acousticians, e.g., Helmholtz. Their theoretical discussions flashed through Baschet's teeming imagination and emerged as sounds-new sounds of otherworldly groans, melodious thuds and haunting echoes, which came from the vibrations of two metal spirals plus a plastic resonator. Baschet took his "sound" to a musician friend named Jacques Lasry, who proclaimed it "interesting." With Lasry's encouragement, Baschet has completed four nameless instruments...