Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reed's retirement symbolizes the twilight of the famed Roosevelt court and the rising sun of an Eisenhower court. In 1937 F.D.R. tried and failed to get Congress to raise the number of Justices from nine to 15. But he got the New Deal sympathy he wanted within three years by naming Liberal Democrats Hugo Black, Reed, Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas to succeed Justices Van Devanter, Sutherland, Cardozo and Brandeis-key figures on the court that New Dealers scornfully called "The Nine Old Men." Since 1953 Ike has named three-Republicans Chief Justice Earl Warren and John...
...land where the will to revolt is tempered by memories of the cruel 1936-39 civil war, many signs point to a restive twilight of the regime...
Owner Brecker spiced Roseland's entertainment with female prizefights, yo-yo exhibitions, sneezing contests, and dozens of highly publicized jazz weddings, uniting couples who had found romance in Roseland's violet twilight. His finest inspiration, until it was banned by the police, was the dance marathon. To avoid the wrath of Mayor Jimmy Walker, he once carted a truckload of still-dancing marathoners to an excursion steamer and took them out beyond the three-mile limit, where they all became violently sick at the rail...
...said, 'I want to shake hands.' I asked him to apologize for what he had said. He said in good Italian, 'No. I can't do that.' I said I was sorry and withdrew my hand." Before winging off into the misty twilight, stormy-eyed Maria Callas amplified her outrage: "I am a woman who has been terribly hurt ... I don't like this man taking advantage of my publicity...
Once the sphere is aloft, the Smithsonian takes over, and the name for the project becomes Operation Moon watch. Groups of amateur astronomers across the country will be set to watch for the satellite at twilight and, if they detect it, will rush their findings to Cambridge. With a few of these determinations, high-speed computers will calculate the satellite's orbit, and the photographic stations will be ready to assume the major part of the observing program. The satellites will also be equipped with radio senders, but these may not function adequately at first...