Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prizewinning furniture, which would probably raise no cheers in Grand Rapids, was a plywood table and chair with rod-thin, chrome-plated legs. They were designed by California's solemn, earnest Charles Eames, 39, onetime pupil of famed Finnish modernist Eliel Saarinen. Eames, who designed molded plywood splints for the Navy during the war, is a man who believes that utility is beauty's only garment. He finds the kitchen and bathroom the most beautiful rooms in most U.S. homes. By the same token, Designer Eames explains, "when a chair is comfortable it becomes beautiful...
...night, alone in his studio or his bedroom, he wrestles with dialogue, penciling it into the blank strips he will sketch next day, and erasing it over & over until it rings true. Somehow he finds time to contrive bright new baubles of incident to hang on his thin thread of plot...
...into 1946 snorting to U.N. and to the world a great commoner's bold concept of democracy. But Bevin was sick, and he, too, as the year went on, was content to see the bold words fly where the real power was. Bernard M. Baruch's long, thin hands held the world's No. 1 problem; at year's end it advanced from the Atomic Energy Commission to the Security Council, where the big fight would come...
...this thin stuff continues to concentrate, the particles get hotter & hotter. When they get hot enough (after some billion years), a new star shines...
...news about T.W.A. seemed bad last week. The TWA Constellation Star of Cairo cracked up in Eire, killing twelve (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). And the partnership between thin, erratic Howard Hughes, who controls T.W.A., and roly-poly, even-tempered Jack Frye, who runs it, cracked up. But the second crack-up might prove to be good news for T.W.A...