Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tennis team to organize a golf team. (He now shoots in the high 705 and feels that an ideal vacation is 36 holes of golf every day of the week.) After graduating from Brown University, he joined the Navy as an apprentice seaman, started his training as a "90day wonder," and elected to fight the war in small boats. He got his wish: skipper of a PT boat in the South Pacific, where he participated in the rescue of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who had been adrift on a raft for 21 days. Later, Kennedy's squadron also rescued Lieut...
...masses were the salt of the earth. Officially, the Communists did not attend, but the Communist press turned handsprings in praise of Prokofiev's work and its ideological message. Some critics, obviously unfamiliar with Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel, had trouble following the plot, and small wonder: about the only original characters who came through were Pierre, the high-born hero who learned to love the Russian people through suffering with them, and Natasha, the simple girl who returned to her first love when he was on his deathbed. Tolstoy himself got the most unkindest...
...Sick Man was feeling pretty weak when all at once there appeared on the market two wonder drugs which seemed to cure precisely what ailed him. They were called Cinerama...
TITANIUM, the wonder metal that is even lighter and stronger than magnesium, is in for a huge expansion program. Planemakers are so eager for the heat-resistant metal for air frames and jet engines that Defense Secretary Wilson is expected to approve a $500 million program to boost output to 22,000 tons a year (1952 total: 992 tons). Under the plan Du Pont, and partners National Lead and Allegheny Ludlum, already in production, would raise production sharply; others, like Chicago's Crane Co., would get into the field with the help of Government loans and purchase agreements...
...doctors believed that the sulfas and antibiotics delayed the appearance of complications and may have masked them so that they became harder to treat. Their conclusion: the wonder drugs should never be given for the cold itself, but saved for possible complications...