Word: daos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theta Puzzle. Last summer two daring theorists, both of them Chinese, challenged parity. Professors Tsung Dao Lee of Columbia and Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton were visiting Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory, whose pleasant summer climate and massive equipment attract vacationing physicists from all over the country. A leading topic at bull sessions, some of them held alfresco on Westhampton Beach, was the "tau-theta puzzle," which many leading physicists have been trying manfully to crack since...
While other physicists puzzled over this evidence, Tsung Dao Lee of Columbia University and Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study proposed that the long sacred principle may be invalid. Recently completed experiments at Columbia have justified their assertion...
...Free Viet Nam is immortal! Righteous nationalism will triumph!" cried Premier Ngo Dinh Diem last week as his elated young troops cleared his enemies out of Saigon. In the streets of the city, "Da Dao Bao Dai" (Down with Bao Dai) was now the throbbing cry. As for Chief of State Bao Dai during this dark hour in his young nation's history, he continued to make his Valley Forge in sunny Cannes...
...further friendship and begging for more salt. An Indian sentry refused them entrance, but his commander. Major R. A. Singh, was so convinced of the tribesmen's loyalty that he urged them to come on in. Nine tribesmen marched into the tent. With one quick slash of his dao, the tenth turned and cut off the sentry's head...
...market in baskets balanced on poles over their shoulders. As my jeep left the road and followed the twisting, hedged lane that led to Bai Trang, war -or preparations for war-sprang to view. A rough stone wall protected the village. It bore the crudely painted inscription: "Da dao bon pha dinh pha dinh chua ro nha" (Down with the men who make the misery of the people, who destroy the temples...