Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 1951 a crude thermonuclear experiment had been set up at Eniwetok in the Pacific-Operation Greenhouse. Says Teller: "What remains most clear in my mind is the contrast between the spectacular explosion, which in itself meant nothing, and the small piece of paper handed to me by my good friend Louis Rosen, which showed that the experiment was a success...
...Federal Government pledges to build an Indiana port on Lake Michigan (a longtime Indiana dream). Under the new corrections department, the administration of state institutions has improved materially. Craig has proposed (and will probably get legislative approval for) higher pay for teachers and more funds for schoolrooms. His most spectacular progress, attested to even by some of his foes, has been in the fields of highway safety and mental health...
Firm Hand, Fast Engine. Almost anywhere else, a hot-rodding President, with or without office cares, would be an unusual spectacle. But in Venezuela, that famed, throbbing boom land of South America, the spectacular is commonplace. Four years ago Colonel Pérez Jiménez, then 36, put together an unbeatable combination of nerve and luck to seize dictatorial power in Venezuela; today, growing in influence to the stepped-up beat of the boom, he is a key man in Latin American politics. But though the hard-driving President keeps a firm hand on the wheel, it is Venezuela...
...impact is no longer assisted by the sight of performers struggling with abstractions, nor by the massed reaction of a concert-hall audience. What this will do to musical taste is not clear; some think it will freeze on presold "great" classics, others that it will incline to spectacular moderns. But the important thing is that people who used to take in a live concert about as rarely as they went to the dentist are now daily exposed to good music in all its detail...
Cleary's opening goal at 1:45 of the first period was one of his most spectacular this year and set the Crimson right. O'Malley boosted the sextet's slim 2-1 lead in the second period on a pass from Mahoney, and the first line followed with another pair of tallies to give the team a 5-1 margin after two stanzas...