Word: chaine
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Near Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee is a green woodland dot with man-made pits and a steadily pond. Both pits and pond been used for the disposal of ra wastes, so an 8-ft. chain-link fringed with barbed wire keeps people away from the dangers. Unmanned monitor stations, looking like small refrigerators packed with instruments, keep for signs of trouble. Last sum some of the monitors began to give high readings. One reported than one roentgen per hour, and takes an accumulated dose of only roentgens to kill...
...INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carré. Two early detective novels reissued. A Murder of Quality is a sound puzzle about the murder of a science teacher's wife at an English public school. Call for the Dead is a more conventional thriller, concerning a chain of deaths linked to an East German spy ring, interesting as a rough draft for the literate and expert Spy Who Came In from the Cold...
...daughter and three sons, aged eleven, nine and two (a fourth son drowned in a Saigon fish pond last year). Neither does he get to pursue his favorite hobbies-the breeding of tropical fish and sea swallows. A clean-living type, Khanh rarely drinks; his only visible vice is chain-smoking. He puffs through three and four packs of Salems a day, shrugs: "I read all the reports about cancer, but I decided to go on smoking anyway. A soldier must never mind to be dead...
...INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carré. Two early detective novels reissued. A Murder of Quality is a sound puzzle about the murder of a science teacher's wife at an English public school. Call for the Dead is a more conventional thriller, concerning a chain of deaths linked to an East German spy ring, interesting as a rough draft for the literate and expert Spy Who Came In from the Cold...
Before making the "deal," the attorneys discussed it with Alan Gartner, head of the Boston chapter of CORE, which had sponsored the demonstration protesting the Bickford chain's alleged discriminatory hiring practices. Gartner agreed that there had been no evidence of police butality...