Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Heffernan's portrayal of Larry, Hickey's foil, was more than adequate, although he did curious things with his face in moments of crisis. He and his crony Nick Smith (Don Parrit) were often hard to hear. The other half-dozen inmates were generally convincing, except Robert Foley's Jimmy...
...research that led to the award began in 1934, when Cherenkov. then 30, noticed a bluish glow where gamma rays from radium were striking through water in a flask. The glow was exceedingly faint, and a less curious man might have put it aside as ordinary fluorescence, which is given off by many materials when struck by gamma rays. But Cherenkov's mysterious light proved to be strongly polarized, had a continuous (rainbow-like) spectrum, and was given off predominantly in the direction of the gamma rays...
Philosophy 138a, "European Existentialism," by its very nature, seems destined to attract a certain number of mid-morning auditors, dilettantes, and "fourth course" seekers. But if Emerson D were entirely filled by curious, rather than "serious" philosophy students, it would not daunt Professor William Earle...
...Heuss and the Queen rode at a horse's pace in an open coach from the station to Buckingham Palace, the crowds stood silent except for an occasional shout, mostly in German. There was none of the hostility shown Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, but Londoners were at best curious, and at worst cold...
When a mysterious couple rented huge Stella Maris estate in Buenos Aires' residential town of General Pacheco, the villagers were naturally curious, buzzed about who the strangers were, where they came from, what they were doing. No one could find out. Not even delivery boys got past the front gate. What went on inside the two houses, the annex, in the fine garden, the orchard, swimming pool and volleyball field? The windows were curtained; a seemingly endless stream of strangers went to and fro; and they ate enough food for a platoon. Townfolk talked about smugglers, maybe even revolutionaries...