Word: furlough
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...buildings, the number of workers, and the big names he knew-Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and a scientist known only as "Baker" who, Greenglass had learned, was really Dr. Niels Bohr. His wife, on Rosenberg's instructions, wrote none of the information down but dutifully memorized it all. On furlough in New York in January 1945, Greenglass really delivered...
Greatly Exaggerated. In Rochester, N.Y., Private John B. Smart, home on furlough, signed for a telegram that reported him missing in action in Korea...
...Canceled the Army's ten-day Christmas furlough for soldiers in training camps. Only Christmas and New Year's will be considered holidays...
...Paper. The dailies had laid off all but a handful of their 3,400 nonstriking employees on a payless "furlough." As a result, one sportwriter went to work in an iron foundry and scores of others took temporary jobs to tide them over...
...Richard Reusch is a short, slight (5 ft. 2 in., 110 Ib.) Lutheran missionary of 58 who chose to work among one of the fiercest tribes in Africa-the blood-drinking, spear-wielding Masai. Going back to Tanganyika from his last furlough in the U.S., he had two practical gifts: a tractor presented to him by St. Paul's Church in St. Paul, Minn, and "a splendid shotgun" given by the First Lutheran Church in Worthington, Minn. He has used the first to grow corn, beans and tobacco, the second to shoot "three lions and many hyenas." His days...