Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-selling (over 60,000 copies since March) Why Johnny Can't Read. Said one school official in St. Louis after the Globe-Democrat started its series: "I've never seen a book more discussed than this one. My phone practically rang itself off the wall...
...prowler beside wife Virginia's bed. Never better in a crisis, Goody Knight, a nocturnal symphony in blue and white pajamas, leaped up, lunged toward the intruder, shouting, "I'll get him! You call the cops!" As Virginia screamed girlishly, the crook escaped over a 5-ft. wall outside. Later, Knight puffed proudly: "He sure left in a hurry...
Behind the wall of secrecy that surrounds the guided-missile program, rockets have been developing rapidly (TIME, May 30 et seq.). Scientists in a position to know believe that some of them are powerful enough to raise an object weighing 50 to 100 Ibs. above most of the atmosphere (about 200 miles up) and set it revolving around the earth at 18,000 m.p.h. Supported by this speed, it will not fall, any more than the moon does. It will circle the earth every 90 minutes, until the slight resistance of the fringe of the atmosphere makes it slow down...
...Literally, rocky riding school. It was carved out of a Salzburg hillside to form an area where trained horses performed elaborate steps to music for the amusement of 17th century Archbishop Johann Ernst. Arcades and boxes honeycomb a side wall of solid rock. In 1933 Max Reinhardt used the space for his great production of Goethe's Faust...
...backyard rose garden himself, officiates at the outdoor barbecue, is never too busy on afternoons at home to play catch with his three boys. Indoors, the large house is cramped with Campy's hobbies. A vast and valuable collection of toy trains clutters the attic; an entire wall of the basement den is covered with carefully tended aquariums of expensive tropical fish. Once the conversation swings around to the bright little creatures, Campy actively resents a change of topic -even to baseball...