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Word: condonement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...navigated; Bombardier Robert Montgomery (pleasantly plagued by his cinemactor name) is a Texan who winds up gladly admitting that a hot pilot known only as Thunderbird. "a guy with seven Air Medals, two D.F.C.s and a D.S.C., is no ordinary nigger." The book's only homegrown villain, Colonel Condon, was booted from West Point after his third year for cheating on a French exam, now nobly carries on by bartering stolen food for his emaciated comrades' wristwatches. Standard Nazis, snarling or whining as occasion demands, fill out the cast on the long road to another prison camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Apocalyptic March | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...posted a six-digit random number every day for the last month throughout the University buildings, Stephen G. Brush and Paul E. Condon, Leverett House seniors who founded the society, said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Society Posts 'Random Numbers' | 3/15/1955 | See Source »

...here to serve and not to provide any sort of gambling service, as some people have guessed," Condon explained yesterday. "Each number contains at least 20 separate pieces of information," he added, "but some people don't seem to appreciate the beauty of random numbers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Society Posts 'Random Numbers' | 3/15/1955 | See Source »

...branches at Wellesley and Radcliffe, and will not die after the founders graduate, according to Condon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Society Posts 'Random Numbers' | 3/15/1955 | See Source »

...promising signs that at appropriately high levels in our government a concern now exists to improve the whole loyalty-security-secrecy setup ... If so, then there is a poetic appropriateness to this occasion. It is my very great pleasure, and my special honor, to present to you Edward Uhler Condon, the retiring president." As crew-cut Dr. Condon got to his feet, the normally undemonstrative scientists cheered for three minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Destruction of Confidence | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

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