Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrewd little Vice Premier Paul Reynaud, who visualizes a new French Union with wider, less binding provisions, after the style of the British Commonwealth, one which offers the small, weak states many advantages, but from which they may secede at will. "I don't see how that could happen," he adds, "because they wouldn't last 24 hours." At week's end, Viet Nam had accepted the French proposals, Laos was undecided, but Cambodia's King Norodom was acting as cagily as Syngman Rhee...
Small but heavily endowed, the institute nowadays will accept donations from other benefactors and add them to the Rockefeller funds. But its 56-bed hospital only admits patients with the diseases its doctors happen to be studying at the time. Lately, these have included rheumatic fever, heart and artery disorders, and acute diseases of the respiratory system and the liver. From the institute's laboratories, some of the world's most eminent researchers periodically issue reports of their highly technical findings. For studies of nerve fibers and the transmission of nerve impulses, Director Gasser won (with Dr. Joseph...
FCDA is correct in saying that its shelters will protect some people, who happen to live in wooden houses at the proper distance from an explosion that does not set the houses on fire or spray them with radioactivity. Not all atom bombs will conform to such conditions...
...readers of Bradbury's science fiction will guess, his Martians are no mere bogymen. They are highly intelligent, peace-loving beings who happen to land on the earth by error while on their way to another planet. All they want is to repair their space ship and move on. They do not want to encounter any human beings, who have not reached the advanced stage of civilization essential to such a meeting. The Martians' appearance-the face is a bare, embryo-like mass with a looming eye fixed in the center-would alarm the humans...
...June 3-4, firing was heard. On June 4-5, armed militia marched through the streets and machine guns were placed before the Lenin factories and government buildings . . . Workers in the Lenin Works did not stop the reactionary elements in time, something that must never be allowed to happen again...