Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the country on a three-day sightsee, rubbing noses with Maoris, and making speeches in favor of world trade. On the next stop, Australia, the reception was just as warm except for a cold blast from the Communists, who passed out leaflets about "Tricky Dick" and told him, Australian fashion, to go back home: "Nick off, Nixon...
...values as much as 300%, and caused a drop in fresh-milk prices of as much as 500%. But Carnation has also run into some troublesome folklore. For example, in Africa and Asia, natives got the idea that drinking evaporated milk caused impotency. Not until World War II, when Australian and American soldiers conclusively proved this was not true, did the myth...
Most of the Australian experiments backed by CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) have been done with Dry Ice sown from airplanes. Single clouds were seeded and the results watched by radar, which shows the formation of rain inside the cloud. A cloud-seeding was counted as successful only if rain came from the seeded cloud but not from adjacent clouds that were not seeded. When a cloud's temperature was below 19° F., the trick worked every time. Individual clouds dropped as much as ½ in. of rain that would not have fallen naturally...
Peking radio promptly dismissed the list as a "fake." But three days later, U.N. suspicions were confirmed. Australian-born Wilfred Burchett, correspondent for the French Communist paper, L'Humanité, wandered into Panmunjon to chat with U.N. correspondents. Communist Burchett, whom many U.S. newsmen remembered as a competent reporter for Australian Associated Press during the Pacific war, had previously acted as a news "leak" for the Communists. This time, he carefully let slip the fact that the Chinese were still holding an unspecified number of U.S. airmen who had allegedly been shot down over Chinese territory beyond the Yalu...
...survivors of Author McKie's title are ten men who went down with the Australian light cruiser Perth in Sunda Strait at 12:25 a.m. on March 1, 1942 and came up again to tell the tale. They told it after the war to Author McKie, an Australian newsman, who writes in a brisk style that makes for good reading, if for something less than the national epic he frankly says he intended...