Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photographs so far reveal thin spots through which telescopes may soon penetrate clouds of cosmic dust to explore the center of our galaxy. According to Bok, initial evidence indicates that the Milky Way has a spiral shape with the sun located on one of its arms...
...Johnston and his highly movable stabilizers let wages break through the original ceilings of last January. Congress, in turn, when it wrote its control bill, permitted manufacturers and farmers to boost prices to make up for increased labor costs. In last week's decision, Johnston gave the upward spiral another shove. On the basis of the present consumer's price index, all workers may demand an immediate 2% boost...
...sale marks the first change in ownership of the trademark since Textile Tycoons Charles and Abraham Erlanger bought it from its original owners in 1908. The Messrs. Bradley, Voorhees and Day were Manhattan manufacturers of ladies' and gentlemen's undergarments, were well known for their B.V.D. Spiral Bustle ("The only Bustle made that will not Break Down"). But the Erlangers made B.V.D. probably the best-known initial-trademark in the world when they introduced a revolutionary type of one-piece men's "athletic underwear." Later, they brought out two-piece models as well. Loose-fitting and comfortable...
...Many a man may look respectable," says Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, himself the most respectable of cadgers, "and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase." Lord Emsworth opines: "Speak civilly to blondes, and they will speak civilly to you." And one of the deepest truths in all Wodehouse is expressed by the Oldest Member-a figure who sounds suspiciously like the author himself, now 69. "The true golfing spirit," says the Oldest Member. "That is what matters in this life...
...sell badly. Some are more than half abstract, and Fazzini's bullying of the body into geometrical shapes can be hard to take. But Fazzini uses his freedom with figures to make them look alive from every angle. They seem to be in motion, often have the fiery spiral lift that Michelangelo, with infinitely greater subtlety, achieved. "The body in sculpture," Fazzini says, "is not something that breathes air as I breathe. It must live by itself, outside of physical death...