Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memorial Drive is hidden behind two fences, one of French ash wood staked into the ground; the other of gray brick granite. There is no sign, except a solitary cross located on the bell tower, to indicate the nature, denomination, or purpose of the people gathered within. On one side of the Monastery lies the transit bus yard; on the other, a silent cluster of apartment houses...
...second half, both sides coming very close to scoring. The Crimson saved a try when it forced an M.I.T. runner out of bounds in its end zone (the ball must be touched down to count), and were unluckly in turn when Charlie Eaton and then Jim Coper and Ash Hallett nearly dribbled the ball over the Engineer's line...
...loose forwards will be veteran Ash Hallett, Dave Steinberg, and light but fast Roy Jakeman. Seniors Geoff Locke, Tom Fritz, and King Lowe are other forwards likely to play this fall, as is converted football player Woody Harris...
...looked like salt," said one of the 82 natives, recalling the shower of radioactive ash that fell on Rongelap atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954. "It came down like rain, and it burned when it touched your skin." An unexpected shift of wind had carried the ash from H-bomb tests 150 miles away, off Bikini...
...public might never have got excited about peaceful radiation, but radioactive fallout from nuclear test explosions is more dramatic. On March 1, 1954 came Test Bravo, the gigantic U.S. thermonuclear explosion in the Pacific that sifted "death ash" on Japanese fishermen 71 miles away. Public anxiety increased when it became known that Bravo had made the whole of the earth's atmosphere detectably more radioactive...