Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grips with the Viet Minh. They are like a swarm of flies buzzing around a tree. If you shake the tree they fly away in all directions . . . The Viet Minh tried to win a cheap, spectacular success to compensate for their failure in the vitally important Red River delta, where they have been unable to gain any substantial advantage." General Navarre, in a special message to his troops, said that he "fully expects" to beat the Communists and end the seven-year war in six months of hard fighting. Presumably, both hoped they would be heard in Paris...
...Whipple, L. G. Jacchia and Miss Frances W. Wright of the College Observatory made the discovery from photographic observations of the Delta Aquarius, named for the star Delta in the constellation of Aquarius from which the meteors seem to radiate...
...Delta Aquarids, the trio of scientists stated, move in a highly elliptical orbit around the sun. Such an orbit differs greatly from that of any other meteor swarms. According to the astronomers, the particles did not originate from the debris of a comet in the usual manner of meteor formation...
...distance of 480,000,000 miles from the sun, the Delta Aqurids pass near the orbit of the planet Jupiter and the powerful gravitational field of this planet. The scientists stated that the meteor particles are subject to extreme distortion at this time...
...news, the once faithful Communist Teresa took a step unprecedented in scorned fury-she wrote a letter to the editor of the capitalist Corriere delta Sera: "Please print my categorical denial that the Honorable Longo has got a divorce from me." Throwing caution to the winds, the outraged Teresa went on to point out that divorce is forbidden by Italian Communist doctrine: "Communists, in fact, cannot have two policies, one public and the other personal." This amounted to a charge of deviationism, not only against Longo, but against Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti himself (who divorced his wife in Russia...