Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news came from a Japanese fishing boat, the Fukuryu Maru (Fortunate Dragon), which churned into its home port of Yaizu last week with more than 16,500 lbs. of radioactive tuna and shark and 23 terrified crewmen. They had reason to be frightened: all had been burned by radioactive ash, and the most severely injured men were showing a telltale decline in their white-corpuscle count, which, if not arrested, will inevitably kill them...
...Ambassador's Apologies. Two hours later a fine ash began to fall on the Fortunate Dragon and her crew. It descended for several hours, and when the seamen bathed, they found that it was hard to scrub off. Very soon the men experienced loss of appetite, depression and other first symptoms of radiation...
...Cover) By the evening of Thursday, Feb. 25, 1954, Senator Joe McCarthy, after a fortnight of mounting frenzy, had built the smallest of molehills into one of the most devastating political volcanoes that ever poured the lava of conflict and the ash of dismay over Washington. Joe, the stoker, was still disorganized but quick-witted, charging in and out of his Senate office, snatching up telephones, rushing to the Senate floor to answer quorum calls, dictating statements to reporters. As he dashed about, his office staff lost track, believed a rumor that he had emplaned for New York. Then...
...Quadrangle, to be located behind the Radcliffe Health Center, on Brattle and Ash Sts., will house approximately 150 graduate students and provide meeting and dinning facilities for 300. Designed in the Georgian style like other Radcliffe buildings, the Graduate Center will include a number of recreation rooms and lounges...
...brooding. On the wall, the inter-room video screens glowed. The Master looked at one of the screens and smiled: Brown was hard at work in K-32. The bed was meticulously made--always a major item on the Inspector's list. Shoes were lined neatly under the bed. Ash trays gleamed from their places on the well-dusted shelves. Yes, the Master decided, Brown was a credit to the House. Of course, things had not been that way when he was an undergraduate, but then, hard times had come. The Master pulled a little gold star from his desk...