Word: dragons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knight school. His name was Gawaine le Coeur-Hardy, but he was not very brave or even very bright. When the other students went to jousting class, Gawaine would hide in the woods. At last the headmaster gave up and told him to take the snap course in dragon-slaying. Gawaine was delighted, and spent the rest of his school days hacking at the model dragon on the south meadow. On commencement day, the headmaster gave Gawaine a magic word ("Rumplesnitz") and sent him forth to slay real live dragons. The very next day, Gawaine said the good word...
...March 1 thermonuclear explosion (TIME, March 22) continued to reverberate around the world. By last week the big blast had touched off an investigation in Washington, spread panic through Japan and strained U.S.-Japanese relations. The latest bad news came from a Japanese fishing boat, the Fukuryu Maru (Fortunate Dragon), which churned into its home port of Yaizu last week with more than 16,500 lbs. of radioactive tuna and shark and 23 terrified crewmen. They had reason to be frightened: all had been burned by radioactive ash, and the most severely injured men were showing a telltale decline...
...Iron Cooling . . ." Crewman Sanjiro Masuda, 29, one of the most seriously injured, told what had happened. On the morning of March i, the Fortunate Dragon rode at anchor 71 miles east of Bikini, and well outside the announced danger limits of the U.S. atomic proving grounds. Masuda and seven of his mates were pulling in the nets when the explosion went off. Said Masuda: "We saw strange sparkles and flashes of fire, sparks and fire as bright as the sun itself. The sky around them glowed fiery red and yellow. The glow went on for several minutes-perhaps...
...Ambassador's Apologies. Two hours later a fine ash began to fall on the Fortunate Dragon and her crew. It descended for several hours, and when the seamen bathed, they found that it was hard to scrub off. Very soon the men experienced loss of appetite, depression and other first symptoms of radiation...
...time Japanese medical authorities were aware of what had happened, the fish in the Fortunate Dragon's hold had been sold to markets all over Japan. As the government tried to track down the dangerous fish, a wave of alarm and anger spread over Japan. The bottom dropped out of the fish market. Shops sold out their supplies of Geiger counters, and all incoming fishing boats were checked for radiation. The highly radioactive Fortunate Dragon was quarantined and the entire crew hospitalized. U.S. Ambassador John Allison offered profound official apologies, promised restitution if "the facts so warrant." Meanwhile, there...