Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major reason is that the strong-arm government of President Marcos Perez Jimenez, bent on buying popularity through a spectacular splurge in roads, schools and public housing, is pouring out even more than its whopping oil income of about $600 million a year. Selling new concessions is a way to get plenty of quick cash. With oilmen flying south on nearly every plane, and with the likes of Texas' Multimillionaire Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison settling down in Caracas' Hotel Tamanaco, the Gaceta Oficial will probably print a lot more exciting news in coming months...
...Committee on Atomic Energy. With the late Senator Brien McMahon, Newman helped write the key bill that placed atomic development under civilian control. Since the war he has been a magazine editor (Scientific American, the New Republic) and a visiting lecturer in law at Yale. Sometimes controversial and always spectacular wherever he goes, Newman was once described as a "remarkably fissionable personality...
...breed of "scientific" restorers, equipped with a surgeon's tools, a chemist's swabs, and a burning curiosity about what lies under the next layer of paint, has moved into most of the world's great museums. At best, their efforts have resulted in such spectacular triumphs as the restoration of Leonardo's Last Supper (TIME, Oct. 4, 1954). But all too often their scientific zeal has destroyed what it was meant to preserve. Last week the simmering battle of science v. art came to a boil in the letters columns of London's Times...
...political party's national convention is like the adult life of a May fly -brief, spectacular and essential to the preservation of the species," the booklet begins. Describing this peculiarly American phenomenon, the booklet reviews the histories of the two major parties, showing with a graphic flow chart how they evolved over the years. It also tells about convention ground rules, the major issues, how platforms are hammered together, and, in some footnotes to U.S. political history, recalls such all-but-forgotten presidential candidates as New York's Democratic Governor Horatio Seymour, who became known...
...Sunday Spectacular...