Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Browne; Vatican Librarian Anselmo Albareda. In accordance with tradition, Giovanni Panico and Ildebrando Antoniutti, the apostolic nuncios to Portugal and Spain, will receive their red hats from the heads of state in those countries. - Cardinals who belong to religious orders wear robes that are the same color as the habit of their order...
Crying Castro. The trouble started when students launched a one-hour strike against the announced returns of last December's congressional election, in which Ydigoras handily improved his majority. As is his habit, Ydigoras called the whole shooting match a "Castro-Communist" plot. No doubt the Communists would like to overthrow the man who let Guatemala be used as a base for last year's Cuban invasion. But the Reds are by no means the only ones fed up with Ydigoras. Because of organized graft that flourishes like a fungus, the majority of Guatemala's business...
Another difficulty is the electrons' habit of losing much of the energy that is stuffed into them. When electrons move in a magnetic field, they turn some of their energy into "synchrotron radiation" that shoots off like mud slinging off a wheel. The more energy they have, the more they radiate away. When they have been fattened to about 1 billion electron-volts (or 1 BEV, as physicists call it), they begin to radiate visible light. At 2 BEV, they radiate the more powerful ultraviolet rays. At 4 BEV, they radiate X rays, losing several million electron-volts...
Many actors sculpt their real names. Ethel Zimmerman clipped off the zim. Vivien Hartley lost her hart. James Baumgarner dropped the baum. Grace Stanfield is now Gracie Fields. Uncle Miltie was once Milton Berlinger. One letter made the difference for Dorothy Lambour. First names have a habit of turning into surnames. Benny Kubelsky changed his name to Jack Benny, Muni Weisenfreund to Paul Muni, Preston Meservey to Robert Preston...
...dispute over the drug, which must by law bear the label "may be habit-forming," broke out at a meeting of members of the Center March 15. Part of the controversy involves the question of whether the experimenter himself should be under the influence of the drug...