Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hammarskjold also recognized Israel's right of "innocent passage" in the Gulf of Aqaba, and thus began at last to work his way out of the dead-end U.N. legalism that Nasser had been the unoffending victim of aggression, and the U.N.'s only responsibility was not to reward aggression. Hammarskjold had to operate within the mandate of the Assembly, where the Arab-Asian bloc, when joined by the Communists, can muster up to 36 out of 80 votes. He suggested that if Israel withdrew to the 1949 armistice line, it might be possible to enforce...
...proved that mesons can be mirror twins (like right-hand and left-hand gloves) and still not behave in the same way. After the conclusive run of the experiment, says Dr. Lederman, "I called Lee on the telephone and told him, 'You're in!' " Parity was dead...
Toscanini was dead after a stroke at 89. The short, precisely garbed body lay for two days in the coldly impersonal dignity of a Manhattan funeral parlor on Madison Avenue, and thousands filed past for a look. Along with friends and true admirers came a miscellaneous crowd who might never have heard a note Toscanini played, or who might not be able to tell one note from another, but who were sure that the little man had been a genius. And they were right...
...talking about nine-year-old Minou Drouet, whose poems launched a major cultural rhubarb in Paris (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955). Since then, Minou (a French pet name for "kitten") has fought back. When a critic sniffed that she should go back to her dolls, Minou answered: "Dolls are the dead. Have I no more to do here on earth?" More important in her defense was a test for membership in France's Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers. Put alone in a room and given several topics, Minou emerged in 25 minutes with a creditable 38-line poem...
...point of fact-as the letter now reveals-he was old Andrew's illegitimate son by a neighbor of theirs, one Mrs. Lang, and thus, of course, his wife's half brother. Christian takes this discovery so much to heart (which was never strong) that he drops dead. But Sophia is made of sterner stuff. Bravely burying her husband-half-brother, she murmurs to the children: "So I am Father's sister. Well, I am not troubled about that. It only seems to draw us closer...