Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin with a rule of thumb for analyzing international alliances...
Science & Sex. First or last, the Weekly has left its indelible thumb smudge on the newspaper scene. It was created in 1896 as the American Sunday Magazine, Popular Periodical of the New York Journal for use as a weapon in the mortal struggle between Hearst's Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's World. Pulitzer brandished a Sunday supplement of his own, the Sunday Magazine-but he had to do without the help of his imaginative Sunday editor, Morrill Goddard, 30, whom Hearst had hired away earlier that year, along with the World's entire Sunday staff...
...them to over 100,000 ft. into the air and saturating them with more than 200 species of radioactive particles. Depending on wind and other conditions, these particles would fall back in lethal quantities over an area extending perhaps 150 miles from ground zero. As a rough rule of thumb, lag between the bomb's flash and the beginning of fallout might be figured at one minute for each quarter-mile from ground zero; thus, at 30 miles it would be two hours...
...expresses a major Communist crisis: the Reds' evident inability to bring the same competence to agriculture that, on the whole, they show in industry and technology. After 40 years of collectivization and relentless agricultural planning, the Marxists are making it plain once again that they lack a green thumb. This is all the more remarkable because, since the war, much of the non-Communist world has experienced a startling agricultural revolution. Machines are replacing men in the fields; with countless innovations, science has vastly increased the yield of the earth. But at a time when the U.S. is glutted...
...Women, Claudelle Inglish) have been sold, most of them a salty but honestly written sort of gallus humor. But their covers-and occasionally, some of their contents-are aimed at the skin trade. Consequently, the author is too often ignored by readers who have passed the stage of handing thumb-indexed copies of God's Little Acre around high school study halls. The present collection of rural yarning is a useful reminder that Caldwell, 57, is one of the best short-story tellers...