Word: interior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stirs out of his rock-walled white palace; he is too busy planning his defense. Last week he called up 6,000 army reservists to build his active-duty force to 21,000 men (only half of them well trained). He put laborers to work building forts in the interior, sent reinforcements to the string of strongholds along the 193-mile Haitian frontier...
...would attract enough sea water to raise sea level about 50 ft. above the theoretical curve of an ideally plastic earth. None of the newfound bulges are large compared to the polar spin-flattening (about 13 miles), but they may cast new light on the earth's mysterious interior...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4--A bill to make Hawaii the 50th state moved one step forward yesterday by getting a 5-4 vote of approval by the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs...
...thud of Batista's fall reverberated in far-off Paraguay. The official radio, broadcasting from the Interior Ministry, urged Strongman Alfredo Stroessner to proceed with "preventive executions to avoid a blood bath like Cuba's in Paraguay." One night last week, heavily armed police, tipped off by a stoolpigeon network organized by the fugitive Yugoslav war criminal, Ante Pavelic,* charged into Asuncion's southern district. There they seized two boys who, with chunks of clay, were scrawling on house walls an appeal to free political prisoners. Cops sealed off ten blocks of cobblestoned streets, raided houses...
...there was a volcanic eruption, it is evidence that the moon is not a cold, dead lump of rock, but that its interior is still hot, at least in some places. Some non-Russian astronomers have accepted Dr. Kozyrev's observations, if not his theories. Professor Donald H. Menzel of Harvard thinks that Kozyrev certainly saw something happen on the moon, but it may have been merely a jet of gas breaking out of a crevice. Physicist J. H. Fremlin of the University of Birmingham, England theorized in this week's Nature that if the bottoms of lunar...