Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawned bright. After Frank's first performance, the stage door was congested by some squealing young things who wanted his autograph. The crowds grew until, after some weeks, traffic in Times Square was stopped cold by the massed oblation of thousands of wriggling female children. Out came the riot squad, up went the headlines: FIVE THOUSAND GIRLS FIGHT TO GET VIEW OF FRANK SINATRA. A scrawny, wistful little piper had come to town, and the younger generation was following him in far greater numbers and enthusiasm than ever it had shown for the Hamelin original-or for Rudolph Valentino...
...supraservice status is the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, which serves the Veterans Administration, Public Health Service and Atomic Energy Commission as well. Behind its massive new walls (proof against radioactive contamination) are 656,000 bottled specimens of human tissue bearing the imprint of one or another of a thousand diseases, not to mention 6,332,508 slides containing tissue slices or body fluids for the diagnostic microscope. Among the institute's odd relics: a lock of Lincoln's hair and a sliver of bone from his skull; the leg lost by General Dan Sickles...
Onstage strode Orpheus, a fine, sturdy figure of a man, wearing a beige and green costume, and carrying a gilded lyre. In the orchestra the noble trombones swelled to the point where Orpheus would sing of his decision to seek Eurydice in Hades. Four thousand guests at France's Aix-les-Bains music festival, including Italy's ex-King Umberto and ex-Queen Marie José, leaned forward. The hero was about to make his impassioned plea: "Give her back to me, you powers of Hell!" Instead, the audience heard his hoarse shout in Italian-accented French...
...gloomier moments Poet T. S. Eliot predicted that Western civilization's sole enduring monuments would be "the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls." Not if Bart Leiper of Gatlinburg, Tenn. has his way. Leiper, a drumbeater for the local Chamber of Commerce, needed a gimmick to promote the opening of Gatlinburg's new Pigeon Forge golf course and hit on a surefire teaser: atomic golf balls. At nearby Oak Ridge he persuaded scientists to inject three golf balls with pellets of radioactive cobalt 60, happily headed home to Gatlinburg with the fixings. On opening day last...
...order a cadet: "Stand tall, reach for the sky and look proud; you're an air cadet, Mister." But the competitive spirit of the new academy is probably best portrayed by the answer to "What is your altitude, Mister?" To this the cadet must say: "Five thousand, two hundred and eighty feet, sir, and far, far above that of West Point or Annapolis...