Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paratroopers dropped from the hatch of the high-tailed C-123 troop carrier. Their static lines, the 15-ft.-long "ripcords" attached to the plane, automatically plucked open the parachutes, set them free to drift, like whitish blossoms, over "Drop Zone Salerno" at Fort Bragg, N.C. "All troops away," sang the crew engineer into the intercom, and then he began routinely pulling in the static lines, which were wind-plastered against the fuselage. Suddenly he realized that one was stuck fast, looked down and under the plane to see a sprawling jumper being dragged through space, belly up, eight feet...
What hurt more was the fact that the drop in overall sales would virtually all come out of General Motors' share of the market. Last week at G.M.'s annual meeting, a stockholder asked who was responsible for G.M.'s poor "static styling" this year. Answered President Curtice: "The present management...
...class he lectured with such fervor that he once fell clean off his podium. "He transformed Yale's art gallery from a static storehouse of paintings into a bustling teaching museum, established the school of architecture and design as a foremost trainer of museum directors. But the chief purpose behind his flamboyance was to "set my students on fire." He did not favor one form of art or one period, tried to give his students both a taste for excellence and a taste for tolerance. "There are many ways of expressing the human spirit," he would...
...human ruins. Among such victims of war, children, with their mixture of helplessness and guiltlessness, are the most poignant. Around a camp of brutalized children and their would-be healers in a thinly disguised German locale, British Author Peter Vansittart has fashioned a melancholy novel that is sometimes static but frequently moving. Two brothers, Eric and the nameless first-person narrator of the story, have turned their war-ravaged country estate, Kasalten, into a rehabilitation center. The youngsters, turned savage by war and its aftermath, very nearly rule the place with their catapults, clubs, knives and even pistols. They move...
Broadcasting from the Met is one of radio's thorniest technical problems. "You don't have the static setup of a studio." says Technical Director William Marshall. "There is constant movement; hence, 16 microphones must be used to follow it." Mikes are constantly being tuned in and out, so that dial twisters at home actually hear fewer flaws than do boxholders of the Diamond Horseshoe...