Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symbol of victory, a silvered laurel wreath. Grivas was weeping. "Small Cyprus fought Goliath," he said. "It did not succumb." He had consented to a peace that brought self-government to Cyprus but forbade it enosis (union with Greece). He handed the mayor of Athens a small bag of earth taken from his mountain lair, and said emotionally, "This bit of soil, soaked with the blood of Cypriot fighters, will be the link between Cyprus and Greece." His eyes still wet, Grivas was led to a Cadillac, and driven through flag-decked streets to be cheered by a quarter million...
Statue to Harding. At first, while he trained his little guerrilla army, Grivas had to set detonation charges himself. Much of the time he hid in a tiny cave dug into the side of a hill, its mouth plugged with foliage and earth, a slender tube run inside for breathing...
...woman; but in the end he often did not claim her at all, or if he did, what he got was a sexless ninny. Yet in many of the recent westerns, the woman is far less passive. She is continually attempting to bring the hero down to earth, to make him face reality. She is behaving like a real woman, "and the hero, as a result, begins to lose his superhuman disinterestedness and sexlessness, begins to behave like a real...
...Secret nuclear test detonations at more than 300 miles above the earth were conducted by the United States early last September." So began last week the year's biggest news beat: a report by New York Times Military Editor Hanson W. Baldwin on Project Argus-an attempt to gauge the behavior of high-speed electrons in the earth's magnetic field (see SCIENCE). The story was much more than a beat. Working on Argus, Reporter Baldwin months ago got into the precarious position of having to decide when and how-if at all-to use material that could...
...almost seemed impudence. Man, in cosmological terms an all but invisible presence on the surface of the earth, had flung aloft an apparatus which disturbed the order of the heavens themselves, made auroras flare in the skies, a hemisphere apart. Exploding nuclear bombs 300 miles above the South Atlantic, the men of Project Argus spun a veil of electrons around the earth, boldly using the atmosphere and nearby space as their laboratory...