Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN U.S. Commodore M. C. Perry opened Japan to Western influence in 1853, he dealt a death blow in its own homeland to a waning but graceful and distinctively Japanese art-the woodblock print. But the clean, flat patterns of Japanese printers had a major influence on Western painters from Whistler to Matisse. A century later, the influence has been reversed. Japanese artists, freshly inspired by the works of European post-impressionists and abstractionists, are breathing new life into an old form...
...foot long. At each end the magnetic field is given added strength to form a magnetic "mirror," which reflects back the charged particles as they try to escape, thus sealing the gas in a magnetic bottle. A bank of 99 condensers, kept in the basement since condensers sometimes blow up, sends a jolt of 4,000,000 amperes thundering through the coil, heating the gas up to around 20 million degrees. Dr. Kolb reported that his machine had confined plasma and kept it stable at this temperature for twelve microseconds. During this period, bursts of neutrons poured...
Scattered Returns. In Adelaide, Australia, after failing to blow an insurance office safe, a burglar phoned police, warned of an explosion...
...argue with Americans in night clubs, [where] TV commercials can be permitted on the same channels that pledge the 'workers' society' to a world free from private enterprise." The contradictions stem from the fact that the 1956 revolution had to be halted halfway, frozen in mid-blow; Poland's economy is lethargic and disorderly, its younger generation is embittered after seeing its 1956 hopes for liberty diluted in daily compromise with Moscow...
...figure out what should be done. I have four children to take care of. As long as the Government pays for it, I'll raise as much wheat as I can." The farmers, concluded Lubell, are "waiting for someone other than themselves to blow the whistle and say the party is over...