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Word: ashe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radioactive fallout from the Nevada tests has not been serious, but senseless fallout jitters are getting more so. Last week an Oakland, Calif, householder reported his lawn covered with radioactive ash. Civil-defense technicians came running, found the "ash'' to be a yellow film of acacia pollen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Underground A-Bomb | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Localized to an industrial area of the U.S., the AEC's estimates would mean that a Bikini-sized H-bomb dropped on Cleveland with the wind northwest could level the city, threaten the life of everyone in Pittsburgh, and spread lethal ash across a strip of West Virginia, into Virginia and Maryland (see map). If the wind were stronger than it was at the time of the Bikini test, the fatal fallout from a Cleveland bomb could reach all the way to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Fatal Fall-Out | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Also competing were varsity captain Ebbe Dane, Fred Churchill, and Ash Hallett. Dane and Churchill finished eighth and tenth respectively in Class C, while Hallett was disqualified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Churchill Takes Third Place In Class C Skiing Competition | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...Quadrangle will be located on the corner of Brattle and Ash Sts., on land given to the College as a gift 50 years...

Author: By Patricia J. Maslon, | Title: 'Cliffe Raises $1 Million for Grad Center | 2/16/1955 | See Source »

...clock one morning last week, Vice Admiral Alfred Melville Pride arose in his cabin aboard the cruiser Helena, had toast and coffee, and turned to the papers stacked on his ash-blond desk. He worked silently, sending out blue memo slips with terse messages, e.g., "O.K., I'll go along with this," or simply. "Let's talk." He finished his correspondence by 9 o'clock. Then, one by one through his brown Fiberglas door curtain came the top officers of Pride's Seventh Fleet for a conference. Pride greeted them quietly. These were men who measured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: PRIDE OF THE SEVENTH FLEET | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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