Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spiritual Allergies. The actual working of the church's book censorship is not so inflexible as it sounds. Any Catholic with a "good reason" for reading a banned book can easily get permission from his bishop. Many U.S. bishops give temporary blanket permissions to students in their dioceses to read books necessary for their studies...
Greenland's glacial blanket, explains Dr. Nye, tends to spread out and flow downhill because of its own weight. But this movement is balanced by the rock floor compressed under centuries of ice and snow. Some ice is lost in summer's melting and in icebergs that break off to sea. But the big glacier is refreshed with snow slowly hardening into more ice. It is this almost perfect equilibrium that Dr. Nye describes in his complicated formulas. Having written the equations, the lab-locked explorer then works backward, calculating ice depth from surface contours...
...there are only 108 TV stations in the U.S. The new FCC ruling assigns a total of 2,053 stations to 1,291 communities, which will virtually blanket the U.S. and its possessions, from Alaska to Puerto Rico, with TV. Two hundred forty-two stations are to be set aside for noncommercial "educational use." To make sure there is room enough for everybody, FCC is also assigning 70 new ultra high frequency channels to television...
...special committee recently recommended at inexpensive blanket plan that would insure players up to $5,000. The proposal calls for a $250 deductible insurance policy that would cost one dollar per year for each athlete. Under the group plan the premiums would be paid by the school, and it would cover any athlete hurt in collegiate practice, games, or travel. The group plan is optional and is being explained to members of the NCAA by mail...
...Blanket. In Santiago, Chile, Weather Forecaster Julio Bustos was being sued by the mayor of Valdivia, who charged that Bustos' prediction of rain during Valdivia's centenary celebrations had discouraged tourists, cost the city 10 million pesos...