Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Steptoe, who witnessed many of these changes before his death at 74, in 1988, was an unlikely revolutionary. Born to a church organist father and social-service worker mother in rural Oxfordshire, he decided at an early age to pursue medicine over music. During World War II, he was captured...
He had personally landed in the new world four years earlier, with a newly minted Nobel Prize gold medal in his pocket, pre-eminent among a distillation of outstanding scientists who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1930s to escape anti-Semitic persecution in Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's...
Fermi proceeded imperturbably through the experiment, confident of the estimates he had charted with his pocket slide rule. At 11:30 a.m., as was his custom, he stopped for lunch. The pile went critical in midafternoon with the full withdrawal of the control rods, and Fermi allowed himself a grin...
In the late 19th century, Henry Morrison Flagler and a few other characters of the Gilded Age decided that the harsh northern winters were severely cutting into their ability to oppress the northern masses year-round. Wearing all that wool, how could they be expected to exploit workers? Settling temporarily...
"They built shanties...that looked like box cars," Simpson said. "People were scared that the `Japs' would escape."