Word: subs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olympic star who broke the Iron Curtain to marry U.S. Olympic Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly, scored at a national Amateur Athletic Union meet by breaking the U.S. women's discus record. Her throw: 147 ft. 8 in. In Naantali, Finland, England's Derek Ibbotson ran his fourth sub-four-minute mile (3:58.7), was followed by Finland's Olavi Vuorisalo (3:59.1). In Oslo, Pennsylvania's Josh Culbreath broke the 440-yd. hurdles world record (51.3 sec.) set by a Russian in 1954. Culbreath's time...
...common law," Coke cried out, "protecteth the King!" King James shouted back: "A traitorous speech! The King protecteth the law, and not the law the King!" James shook his fist furiously, but Coke stood his ground for the enduring greatness of England. Quod Rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et Lege, Coke argued fiercely, meaning that the King himself should be under no man, but under God and the law. Now, in July 1957, the U.S. was issuing another call to greatness. The U.S. was proposing that nations should submit themselves to nothing less than a system...
...Unity of a political area demands that the central government provide positive accomplishments," he added, "to resist the strength of outside ties and internal divergence among the sub-divisions...
...rear admiral*), take a higher-paying job with Texas Instruments Inc., an electronics firm. His seadog father, he said, did not want him to resign, but "understands the situation." Some 88 other Navy captains understand the situation and have applied for retirement this year, including famed Sub (U.S.S. Tang) Commander and Medal of Honor Winner Richard H. O'Kane. A slim hope for those who remain: the report of General Electric President Ralph J. Cordiner (TIME, May 20), advocating raises totaling $565,000,000 in the next two years for the armed services, which has drawn sharp criticism from...
...plan of Othello, Shakespeare's most masterly, and most daring, occurs nowhere else in the playwright's works. Othello lacks the usual extraneous trappings and non-essentials. We do not have here scenes of tension or conflict alternating with scenes of "comic relief"; nor do we have any separate sub-plots. Everything is directly related to the main current of the drama. Once Iago begins to poison Othello's mind, the play moves slowly, unswervingly and unalterably to the final catastrophe like a runaway steamroller grinding down a hill. But the conflict between Iago and Othello (if we can call...