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Word: towered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flew, checking the X-15's behavior constantly with the control tower, the B-52 and his chase pilots (one of whom, Air Force Major Robert White, will probably be selected to make the first X-15 test flight in space). When he leveled off at 50,000 ft., Pilot Crossfield called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Old Pro Under Power | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Glass Tower (Bavaria-Filmkunst; Ellis) is a big, bareboned West Berlin penthouse, where Lilli Palmer perches like a trapped pigeon, caught in the dual grip of a possessive husband and a plot as paper-thin as strudel crust. Her husband (O. E. Hasse), a vain, autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

German-made Tower is technically first-rate, precisioned as a Mercedes, and German-born Actress Palmer is a suave, consummate performer. The camera ranges so fluently through her glass prison it seems a pity that the action it catches is mostly senseless Sturm und Drang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Tower of Hope. World War II's crash programs on many scientific fronts brought Dr. Rhoads to another conclusion unpopular in medical circles: a frontal attack on cancer, with experts in a dozen sciences working toward the same goal, should pay off faster than the traditional uncoordinated approach of peacetime. In General Motors' Boss Alfred P. Sloan Jr. he found a kindred spirit. Sloan put up the first $4,000,000, laid the foundations for the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research-a 14-story tower of hope beside Memorial Hospital. Rhoads was its director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mr. Cancer Research | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...makes the observer look sharp, as they shift, change, swell to a musiclike crescendo, and subside to quiescence. One Tangible resembles a fencer's foil set upon its hilt. As it picks up speed, the foil appears to dissolve into a flashing egg-shape. Another Tangible is a tower of aluminum rings suspended at artful intervals on almost invisible wires. Vibration makes the rings spin and lift like a quicksilver ballet. Plinth (see cut) carries sound as well as motion: at a certain point in the vibration cycle, the strip arcs out to strike a metal ball, which makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Forms in Air | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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