Word: titanically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Logan, who was given the annual creative Achievement Award of the conference, was hailed as "a titan of our theatre, whose courage, craftsmanship, and creativity have immeasurably enriched the scope and texture of the American stage...
Brobdingnagian Cartridge. Conceived in 1955 as a backstop to the Atlas ICBM, which is a surface or "soft-base" missile, the Titan program began with a one-year handicap, has since lost ground as the lion's share of money, engineers and steam poured into Atlas. But Titan shows signs of becoming a system with superior potential range, invincibility and kill...
Unlike Atlas, whose three engines ignite on the ground, Titan is a two-stage missile, resembling a Brobdingnagian rifle cartridge. About 130 seconds up-where Atlas sloughs off its twin booster engines -Titan sheds its first stage, 53 ft. of 10-ft.-thick shell and both booster engines. Thus unburdened, the 37-ft. second stage is expected to reach out beyond 9,500 statute miles-3,000 miles farther than Atlas-to deliver a massive warhead weighing better than three tons...
...Billion Dollars. The first Titan was air-shipped to Cape Canaveral in August for components testing. A test launch, using another Titan, has been tentatively scheduled for late next month. The Air Force has firmly programed four Titan squadrons of nine birds each, will start building the first of the four new Titan hard bases soon after the first of the year. Base construction near existing Air Force installations: $50 million per squadron. Titan development costs : $1 billion to date. Target date for an operational Titan...
Novelist-Playwright Longstreet, 51 (The Pedlocks, High Button Shoes), was a youthful art student in Paris, but this hardly qualifies him to write about the titan of the century. The morning meditations and night thoughts attributed to Picasso (called Julio Navarro in the book) are the cliches of art; his views on life and love are similarly copybook. And the speeches put in Picasso's mouth ("Balbac, I've got it! A whole new approach to painting!") often make him sound like a U.S. adman in the throes of a new toothpaste campaign...