Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dowling, 41, was a quiet, deadpan reporter whose field was war. He started out playing at it with the toy soldiers collected for him all over the world by his famous parents, Actor-Producer Eddie Dowling and Comedienne Ray Dooley. He grew up to make a career of combat. He was in the front lines at Guadalcanal, covered the Allied campaign in New Guinea, watched the Japanese surrender in Manila Bay as a World War II correspondent for the Chicago Sun. He won the Ernie Pyle award in 1946 for distinguished war reporting. Death nearly touched him more than once...
...series of slow waves. The speed averages 2½ in. per minute, and the snail makes about 35 foot-waves to cover this distance. The tractive force is considerable. A snail can lift five times its weight up a vertical surface, and on the horizontal it can pull a toy wagon loaded with 200 times its weight. If 25 snails could be induced to crawl in the same direction at the same time, they could pull the weight of a good-sized...
...slit windows. I fight the crazy gyration with the ailerons. They are no weapons. They are feathers in a windstorm ... I release my hand from the aileron control and try to get out of phase with the roll that snaps me violently back and forth in its teeth ... A toy in my hands to fight the whole Goddamned sky that has turned on me." Yet he won with flying skill. On the next flight, he set a record of 1,258 miles an hour...
Above all however, the Threepenny Opera can be entertaining and the Lowell House Musical Society underlines every entertaining aspect, still careful to preserve the work's artistry and social philosophy. For while Brecht could toy with the concept of opera, he would not yield on his ideas. His firmness and intensity spark both text and lyrics. He permits his audience to laugh, heartily and often, then growls at them harshly, "Honest folk may act like sinners, unless they've had their customary dinners." Whatever one thinks of Brecht's grievances of thirty years ago, he makes them compelling and troubling...
Terror of Error. Psychologists have played with Darwin's psyche like happy children with an entrancing toy. Raised by a stern and awesome father, Darwin spent his whole life trying to be a well-behaved little gentleman deserving of love and approval; no great man was ever more prone to anxiety and apology, more terrified of being caught in error...