Word: unreels
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...morning last week a group of West German journalists visiting TIME were surprised to meet in the corridors a file of men, like bearers for an African safari, carrying large canvas-covered crates. As the journalists watched, the men opened the crates, hauled out floodlights and began to unreel rolls of heavy cable. When the Germans came to my office, I could not receive them there; the place was a jungle of light standards, camera tripods and booms for microphones...
...Potez 75, a weird-looking antitank craft with a podlike body hanging between twin fuselages. It fires four guided missiles which unreel up to 1,968 yds. of wire in flight. By means of electrical impulses sent through the wire, a man in the cockpit, sitting at a stick similar to the pilot's, guides the missiles...
...last week, FBI agents walked into the Ulster Chemicals Co. plant (four employees), there arrested the owner, Abraham Brothman, 36, and a blonde, comely colleague, Miriam Moskowitz. FBI officials identified the pair as two more links in the Soviet atomic spy chain which the U.S. started to unreel early this year after the arrest of the British atomic scientist, Dr. Klaus Fuchs...
...hysteria" they used to deride. Their self-assured little world, fissured anyway with snobberies, jealousies and plots, goes to pieces. As Harvard overflows with V-12s in training, Dorothea's libertine of 1923 shows up rich and flashy in a Navy uniform. As the ensuing chapters unreel, the reader may think that Miss Howe's heroine is being loaded with the wartime experiences of a dozen women rather than one, but plenty of women felt that way about themselves...
...life of the most representative type is the subject matter of this book, and it is described with the most revealing tenderness flavored with frequent spurts of recognition of one's own childhood. The Sunday in November which is recorded hour by hour for us as the events slowly unreel is typical of any rainy Sunday when children are allowed to roam within the walls of the house. Bunny, who hated to be forced out of doors just because the sun was out, is allowed his own thoughts and amusements. Dinner table conversations of parents which pass beyond the comprehension...