Word: unfold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trailer takeoff, an F-84 Thunderjet is equipped with a big "booster bottle" (solid propellant rocket) fixed under its tail. The plane is placed on the trailer and the pilot climbs aboard and buttons himself in. The trailer's arms unfold and tilt the nose upward. Then the pilot starts the jet engine. When it is turning at full power, an enormous flame and a cloud of smoke spurt out of the booster bottle. In a few seconds the plane is airborne. The exhausted rocket drops off, and the pilot proceeds. His sudden departure resembles a scene from...
Shock Treatment. The plot began to unfold last spring when Braden bought a ranch-style house in a quiet, all-white suburban section outside Louisville, then transferred title to Andrew Wade, a Negro electrical contractor. In Louisville, where the hard lines of segregation are disappearing slowly, Braden's Communist-style "shock treatment" brought the expected results. First a flaming cross was burned on a lot adjoining Wade's property, then a volley of shots was fired into the house. Finally a bomb exploded...
...Gaston Dominici's life to prepare him for the intricacies of the judicial procedure in which he suddenly found himself. "I don't make fun of anybody," grumbled old Gaston to the judge as the trial's snarls of conflicting evidence began to unfold, "and I don't like anyone to make fun of me." "I'll do the talking, Dominici," the chief judge shouted back at him. "You just listen!" Diverting as it was, the trial did little to shed light on Dominici's guilt or innocence. Long before it was done, Goncourt...
...Lunts back to Broadway in a Noel Coward period piece they had played for two seasons in London. It is, for Coward, rather Victorian in spirit as well as in setting; it scents its sinfulness with lavender, bodices its escalades in whalebone. The story takes a long evening to unfold, but can be summarized in a sentence. A marchioness and an American rail baron pursue their eloping spouses (Edna Best and Brian Aherne), fall in love while separating the lovers, and themselves elope in turn...
...under which private utilities would build a $107 million steam plant and sell the electric power it produces to the Government. The hearings should shed some light on an issue that so far has generated only political heat. This is the basic Dixon-Yates story, which Administration witnesses will unfold this week...