Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Petrov, who deserted his spy job in April 1954, issued a statement through the Australian Security Service. He challenged the claims of Burgess and Maclean, the turncoat British diplomats who revealed their presence in Moscow yesterday for the first time since their mysterious disappearance...
...regularly conducts faith-healing meetings over 300 radio and 115 TV stations, and draws crowds wherever he pitches his revival tent. Since Australia usually welcomes visiting U.S. performers with open arms, his campaign down under should have gone well. But even before he landed in Sydney, a group of Australian preachers denounced him as a "fraud and impostor...
...gotta be in it to win," the touts cry. Australians get in it by buying tickets from state lottery offices or, in Queensland, from thousands of small agents, barbers, news dealers, tobacconists, and drugstore clerks, whose "Don't Pass Your Luck" signs offer curbside service. In Sydney some superstitious ticket buyers write their names upside down on the application forms. Others enter the lottery office only by exits and leave through entrances. Scores wait under the lottery-office clock until the hour strikes before buying a ticket. One regular buyer steadfastly refuses to enter the lottery office until...
When bluff, outspoken Australian Astronomer Richard van der Riet Woolley, 49, stepped off his plane at London Airport last week to take over his duties as Britain's new Astronomer Royal, he promptly let fly with some observations that shook space enthusiasts to their dedicated core. Gruffed Woolley, in response to reporters' questions about the prospects for interplanetary travel: "It's utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing . . . What good would it do us? If we spent the same amount of money on preparing first...
...wound up playing to miners in Nevada, and even worse, in the Australian goldfields. It was there, at last, that someone had the common sense to get on to the horsewhip dodge (which was the Victorian form of the modern gossip queen's "denial" of a "romance"). Lola was flailing away as usual at the local editor, a coarse colonial called Seekamp, when he hit her right back. It discouraged...