Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sent to Congress negotiated agreements to supply nonnuclear elements of nuclear-weapons systems to West Germany, The Netherlands, Turkey, Canada. ¶ Named John Howard Morrow, 49, Negro professor of modern languages at Durham's North Carolina College, to be first U.S. ambassador to the newborn Republic of Guinea...
Australian patrols venturing into the central highlands of New Guinea just after World War II found that their arrival set off a tremendous religious movement. The natives killed all their pigs-principal sources of food and symbol of social position-in the belief that after three days of darkness, "Great Pigs" would appear from the sky. Imitation radio antennas made of rope and bamboo were set up to receive news of the millennium, when black skins would turn white and all the harsh demands of life would miraculously disappear...
...sealed space craft, what becomes of the body heat generated by a passenger? A guinea pig wrapped in a plastic bag would boil to death in its own heat in 15 minutes. And a man in an airtight capsule would cook himself in seven minutes. Last week Project Mercury researchers reported they had found a solution to the problem. The spaceman's body heat will be absorbed by a circulating water system. The water will boil, and the steam will be vented into space in a long, thin, man-made vapor trail...
...least some portion of the Bible had been published in 1,136 languages and dialects-the complete Bible in 215, the New Testament in 273, one or more Gospels in 648. During the year the society added three new languages: Huichol and Otomi (Mexican Indian) and Combe (Spanish Guinea). But there are more than 1,000 tongues in which no part of the Bible has yet appeared...
...French West Africa, a stretch of territory eight times the size of France. One favors a set of small nations, each closely tied with France; this is Houphouet's view, and De Gaulle calls him "a great Frenchman and a great African." At the opposite extreme is Guinea's Sekou...