Word: leon
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...accurately aimed; the hand grenade lobbed into a crowded restaurant maims anyone within reach of its steel splinters; the bomb exploded in street or tenement kills whoever happens to be near by. One of the few men in Algeria to protest against the murderous nightmare is Leon Duval, 58, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Algiers. ''To repay evil with evil," he warned his fellow Europeans, "is to be conquered by evil. Replying to crime with crime is dishonor. To attack the innocent, inflicting cruel punishment upon them, is an offense against God!" In answer, his parishioners openly...
...Marne," where the French at long last halted the German armies, weakened by the loss of the departed two corps and sorely needing the reinforcements Moltke held back. Her book does not capture the roar of battle that rumbles through Gallipoli, by Alan Moorehead, or In Flanders Fields, by Leon Wolff...
Probably the most frightening news for Crimson fans at Watson Rink yesterday was the 11-1 victory by the Brown freshmen. It was engineered by two young Canadians, Terry Chapman and Leon Bryant, who together have amassed 61 points in nine games this season...
Trapping a neutrino will be no mean trick. For the little particle is so small that it has no mass at all; it carries no electric charge and will be detectable only as a swiftly moving speck of energy. But the new Brookhaven spark chamber, designed by Drs. Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger of Columbia University, has already proved to be remarkably sensitive. The spaces between its plates are filled with neon gas, and when alternate plates are charged with 10,000 volts of electricity, bright streams of sparks streak across the chamber at jagged angles. Those sparks...
Died. Natalia Ivanovna Sedova Trotsky, 79, frail wife of late Revolutionary Leon Trotsky; outside Paris. An active revolutionist by 15, she met Trotsky in Paris in 1902, was jailed with him in Russia after the abortive 1905 revolution, rose to high bureaucratic posts with him (e.g., director of museums) after the 1917 Bolshevik victory, fled with him in 1928, tried vainly to get Nikita Khrushchev to restore him to honor in the Communist constellation...