Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loyalty and character in this whole project." With a patient confidence, Lilienthal began to take Hickenlooper's charges apart. For one thing, Hickenlooper had put all the blame on Lilienthal, though AEC and its laboratories (Argonne), atom plants (Hanford) and proving grounds (Eniwetok) are governed by a full five-man commission, and not by Chairman Lilienthal alone. And of more than 500 formal decisions taken by the commission only five had not been unanimous, Lilienthal said...
...line, another of the eight whacked Ray. The boys also wrecked the room. The student who lived across the hall found Ray in the bathroom wiping the blood off a cut lip, and put him to bed. Later he had to be taken to the hospital. There, after five hours, Ray Cirrotta died on the operating table of a cerebral hemorrhage. Dartmouth suspended the eight students...
...York City, where he spent a harrowing fortnight five months ago, seemed like a nightmare in retrospect to Jean Cocteau, France's birdlike little Jack-of-all-arts. "New York is not a city that sits down," he said. "It is not a town that sleeps . . . I am talking about a town that stands up because if it sat down it would rest, and it would think, and if it went to bed it would fall asleep and dream, and it wants neither to think nor to dream, but to divide its time upright, between the two breasts...
...Margaret Rose of York. Her grandfather, seagoing George V, was still king. Her Uncle David, then Prince of Wales, had shown no signs of relinquishing his heritage when it came. Even should her father, the Duke of York, become king, there was still an elder sister ahead of Margaret. -Five years later her Uncle David became King Edward VIII. Then, suddenly his reign was over, and he went off to marry Wallis Warfield. "Are they going to cut off his head?" Margaret asked her big sister expectantly when she heard the news. When she finally understood that her own father...
...taking half a pint of blood from the sick girl, and transferring it in a standard vacuum blood container to the veins of the convict. Next, they took a pint of his blood, gave it to her. Then the exchange was made pint-for-pint for four days (a five-hour session each day) until a total of 9,000 cubic centimeters (18 pints) had been interchanged. Last week, the transfer over, the lifer went back to his cell, the girl to her Manhattan home...