Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schools must begin. Back to the University of Georgia came the two young Negroes who were the targets of a bawling mob only a few days before. In came local cops, private cops, state cops and quiet men from the FBI. Down came the Confederate flag atop the Kappa Alpha house, and coeds dutifully obeyed an 8:30 curfew. "Quiet as a good country churchyard at midnight," said Dean of Men William Tate, who had battled the mob alone. Surveying husky Hamilton Holmes, one football-happy alumnus mused: "The more I look at that boy, the whiter he gets." With...
...details of the arrests and their aftermath have leaked past Touré's rigorous censorship. According to foreigners recently in Conakry, five prisoners were beaten and tortured to death at the interrogation in Alpha Yaya military camp. Their remains were sent home in sealed coffins, and police waited until the coffins were underground before they left. An employee at Alpha Yaya said police knocked Diallo's teeth out and ripped out his fingernails. The relatives of another prisoner were told to come and get him. They found him crawling on his hands and knees, his back broken...
...once generally loathsome, but now most of them are a good deal more mannerly than human beings. A wry corollary is the now typical story of Earthlings, as far advanced scientifically as they are retarded morally, who burst BEM-like upon the ancient, saintly and helpless squid-creatures of Alpha Centauri...
Sentries & Showers. But SAC rarely runs an alert beyond Alpha (crew in the cockpit) or Bravo (engine run-up), never beyond Coco (takeoff position on the runway). SAC does not fly cocked aircraft. Reason: any change in a plane's ground alert status is regarded as "uncocking" and lessens the alert capability. Alert planes returning from a practice mission would be in no shape for a real-life turn-around to actual war missions: if they were in the landing pattern when the klaxon sounded the real thing, they would have to be refueled and their crews would need...
...feet away. The pennies scattered off the disk in a significant pattern, but Lambe was not using them to demonstrate the elasticity of metals, Newton's laws of motion, or anything else in classical physics. His penny routine was part of a discussion of what happens when alpha particles (helium nuclei) are shot at heavy atoms such as gold...