Word: staggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Funny Face (Paramount) is one of those big Technicolor musicals that stagger toward the culminating nuptials like a determined but overequipped bride. The burden includes something old: Fred Astaire, now 56 and at last beginning to show it. Something new: Audrey Hepburn in her first musical. Something borrowed: six songs by George Gershwin, four of them from the 1927 musical of the same name. And something blue: the audience...
...engines still turning over. But when Pilot Conrad Shinn gunned his engines and fired four JATO (jet assist) bottles for takeoff, the R4D stuck fast, its skis frozen to the icy surface. Only by blasting off his eleven remaining JATO bottles did Shinn wrench the plane loose and stagger into the thin air at well below normal take-off speed. Back at McMurdo, Dufek ordered establishment of the Siple camp delayed for two weeks ("If it was too cold for me, it will be too cold for those Seabees"), then headed off to the hospital with a serious case...
...nose, has in one way been a hindrance to its penetration in society. The ramifications of orgonomy into all branches of science, stemming from the single basic discovery of orgone energy, the erstwhile hypothetical ether which science, for good reason, has never been able to abandon, stagger the average and academic imagination. People cannot readily grasp a science whose track leads from the understanding of neurosis to "Cosmic Orgone Engineering." They become suspicious, get scared off by the magnitude of what confronts them. Yet all of Reich's great findings are factual, demonstrable, irrefutable, as were those of Galileo...
Dwarfs into Sausage. Dwarfs mated to dwarfs produce all dwarfs, but although dwarfs are potentially fertile, they rarely reach breeding age. Many are born dead or die soon after birth. Those that live to maturity grow about half the size of normal beef cattle. They wheeze and stagger; their bellies swell, and they often die of bloat. Dwarf beef is of poor quality. Most dwarfs that go to market are ground into sausage...
These are figures that stagger the imagination. In no previous war, revolution* or human holocaust, either in the days of Tamerlane or in the time of Hitler, have so many people been destroyed in so short a period. Because it is hard for the mind to visualize so vast a slaughter in human terms, the Communists have been able to reap an advantage from the very size of their funeral pyre: many Westerners, finding the monstrous incredible, cannot see the blood on the hand of pretended friendship proffered by Chinese Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung...