Word: emit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash fled to Moscow when the union was proclaimed, the Communist newspaper Al Noor still publishes the Red line. And Damascus Radio echoes it. Sample broadcast about Lebanon: "The U.S. has taken off the fancy dress hiding her real identity as a slippery snake trying to emit poison, suck blood and eat human flesh...
...strange new concepts of the quantum theory, which bewildered most physicists then as they bewilder most laymen now. The atomic electrons, said unclassical Physicist Bohr, cannot revolve in any old orbit. They must stick to certain particular orbits, and when they jump from one to another, they emit light. In 1913 this theory seemed "against common sense," but it won against all critics and started physics on the road to understanding the atom...
...hobbles skillfully as the girl's mother, and Nancy Pollock puts the right possessive touches into her acting of the hero's sister. Sylvia Davis and Ethel Britton handle comic roles well, even if the exaggeration is not always useful. One of them, as a cowlike neighbor, seems to emit, "I mean, what the hell" every minute or two of her life. It's funny at first...
...Klux Klan is just as dated, but Wallace produced its Imperial Wizard Eldon L. Edwards in a flurry of bedsheets and a flourish of portentous announcements. Edwards, a tongue-tied Atlanta paint sprayer, was a sitting duck for Wallace's speechifying, loaded questions. He managed to emit a few typical noises; e.g., the Bible teaches segregation (though he could not quote a supporting text). But the K.K.K., long discredited in the South itself, is not a real issue. Segregation is, and the case for it-such as it is-could be made by more articulate and more respectable Southerners...
...stored and carried," said Wilson, anticipating the next question, "these weapons emit no harmful radiation and present no radiation hazard to persons living near or passing by locations [e.g., Nike-Hercules' launching stations] where they are deployed. Many personnel already work in the vicinity of nuclear weapons daily...