Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Military Specialist Mahon and his committee had heard facts about U.S. missiles that for a long time have been smothered in security and distorted by political wrangling and unseemly interservice bickering. Most solid piece of news: the Air Force's intermediate-range Thor, while still in the testing stage, has proved its reliability, is already on a production-line basis (TIME, Nov. 25), and production can be speeded promptly...
...called his director. "We've had it,'' he said. "The Catholic press is saying we are doing a Communist play." All that had happened was that a columnist for some 45 Roman Catholic newspapers and magazines had written a story complaining that CBS was about to stage a play whose off-Broadway version in 1954 pleaded "for soft handling of suspected Communists." The story sent Madison Avenue into a flap, and ad agencies for go's five sponsors talked of backing out. Officials at CBS rushed down a wad of proposed script changes...
...third stage of Sputnik I's rocket may have plunged to its death on its 879th circuit Saturday night, announced Fred L. Whipple, Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory...
...shuffling of characters on and off stage reveals his unsure stage craftsmanship, as do some of his strongest assets: some of his pungent, well-wrought lines, which sounded excellent from a nearly excessively bright novelist, can sound overpolished in the mouths of characters on stage, especially such a character as a housemaid...
...lying littered through the Square like those rubbish-flakes; and you can step on them as if they were rubbish, and your only fear is that they'll dirty your sneakers; don't you feel the power in you, don't you see the night is a gigantic stage where you enter and exit players you, yourself, have molded, without another director in the universe...