Word: whirligig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greeks conceived the idea of the atom, and over the centuries it made the nature of matter seem a nice, simple thing. Modern physicists opened the nucleus of the atom, and the whirligig inside opened up a new and wonderful world. But man continues attempts to explain the universe as the harmony envisioned by the Greeks. Einstein thought he could, but never found a way to put his unified field theory to a test. Last week two new and impressive efforts toward harmony were announced in Manhattan and West Berlin. See SCIENCE, "Assumptions of Symmetry...
...International Amateur Athletic Federation slapped a ban on the Spanish whirligig style of javelin throwing, which had been producing phenomenal results all over Europe (TIME, Oct. 29), by adding a sentence to the javelin-throwing rules: "At no time after preparing to throw, until the javelin has been discharged into the air, may the competitor turn completely around so that his back is toward the throwing...
FOREIGN SCULPTURE: U.S. Abstractionist Alexander Calder (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951), whose whirligig mobiles fascinated both judges and visitors...
...have a weakness: that of being rich . . . Writers with a sense of duty warn of the disaster we are headed for through our bragging folly, and shortsightedness; but no one pays any attention. The whirligig of clothes, horses and refrigerators spins on. Now we have reached perfection. We bring in dwarfs and freaks to divert us ... fighters with bellies like jugs, and women who wiggle their hips in a different rhythm from the rest of the body...