Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still wary of Nasser's power over the Arab masses, and did not want a break with him. But the conference might prove to be a turning point in a sense the Cairo press did not intend, for it showed that in the Arab world Nasser could count fully on only one other supporter, Communist-infiltrated Syria...
...Solis Ruiz, the new secretary general of the party, was made minister without portfolio. The Falange was furious, called these changes an attempt to deal the party "a death blow." To appease the hotheads, Franco fired the most violently partisan of the Monarchists, Fernando Súarez de Tangil, Count of Vallellano, but at the same time strengthened the position of other Monarchists in the Cabinet. The jubilant Monarchists later threw a huge party at the Ritz...
...Csepel Island industrial works, famed center of revolt, grimy threadbare workers were responding to the reiterated Communist propaganda that they were agents of the Horthy counterrevolution by addressing each other ironically as Baron, Count and Lord Bishop. It was said that those workers who had remained loyal to the People's Democracy-all six of them-had formed the Kadar government. There were grim jokes about children not getting their milk unless they surrendered their arms...
...injecting them with carcinogens. With the help of Mary McCarthy, 17, Bill Tippie, 18, is building a binary-notation digital computer which will solve problems fed into it by a telephone dial. Allen Womack, 14, is working on his own Geiger counter that he describes as "an analytical count-rate meter for nuclear disintegration...
...long list of objects, from spinach to deer horns, for strontium 90, and found a wide variation. Tea plants, for instance, contained 30 "units"* while spinach had only 3.8. Rice, all important in Japan, was comparatively high (10.4 units), but shellfish from Tokyo Bay had only .04 units. Highest count was from tuna caught in Bikini waters in 1956: 53.5 units. The scientists also examined the ashes of 20 persons, taken from burial urns, and found that their strontium 90 count varied from .06 units for an elderly man who lived in Niigata, to 4.1 units for a survivor...