Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Norway's Princess Astrid, bedecked in décolleté gown, tiara and decorations (including Norway's highest, the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav), celebrated her 25th birthday at the home of her yachtsman father, Crown Prince Olav. More than ever a public figure, Astrid has ranked as her country's "first lady" since her mother's death in 1954, is kept constantly bustling in good works...
...Practices Committee passed a code outlawing rackets and racketeers from its member unions, the Teamsters union began to take action on its long threatened plan to quit or at least undermine the AFL-CIO. As John O'Rourke, head of the New York local put it, his boys would cross the picket lines of those unions which "spend all their time kicking our brains...
...beam so dense that it should cause many collisions with another beam. Better yet is Ohkawa's idea: an accelerator with two streams of particles circulating in opposite directions in the same circular path. Guided in a chainlike pattern by magnetic fields of alternating direction, the streams will cross each other many times as they go round the circle, and their particles will experience many magnificent crackups at each intersection...
...Communist collection of modern masterworks, all bought before World War I, is the result of simon-pure capitalist acquisitiveness. At the turn of the century, fabulously rich Russian merchants, financiers and landowners took the train for Paris, returned with packing cases loaded not only with impressionist masters but a cross section of the most revolutionary modern art of their...
...eagerly met the challenge of Panama, and the result was a fiasco. Age had bred in him not mellowness but arrogance. Yellow fever, corruption and his own stubbornness (he insisted on building a canal without locks despite the mountains and rivers the waterway must cross) ruined the project after ten years of exhausting labor. De Lesseps was forced to admit defeat, and only the selfless courage of his son Charles, who took the burden of responsibility on himself, saved De Lesseps from the ignominy of jail. But 25 years later the Panama Canal became a reality...