Word: maiden
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...film's secret star is Miep Gies, a Gentile who worked for Otto's company. Today she looks like a stoic maiden aunt; kids at a family dinner would peg her as a stodge. But that is because Hollywood teaches us to look for shining ideals in a pretty face. Gies has the plain face of true-life heroism. Each day for two years she took food, magazines and news of the war to the Franks. She persuaded them to accept Pfeffer as a boarder. When the family was seized, she boldly confronted the Nazis. She also saved Anne...
...high-tech Harvard shuttle bus embarked on its maiden voyage yesterday...
...RETURN OF THE ICE MAIDEN The mummified remains of an Incan girl who was sacrificed to appease a mountain god 500 years ago were discovered in the Peruvian Andes. Anthropologists hope that analysis of her body and associated artifacts will answer many questions about how the Inca lived and died...
Those questions and more may soon be answered. Five hundred years after her fateful climb, the Inca maiden has returned to the world below the clouds. Her frozen body, along with those of two other youths, was discovered almost by accident last month by anthropologist Johan Reinhard and his Peruvian guide Miguel Zarate. Her tissues and bodily fluids were still intact. Researchers have found the mummified corpses of other Incas who were sacrificed, and four years ago, the freeze-dried remains of a 5,000-year-old man turned up in the Tyrolean Alps. But none were nearly as well...
Sometime this fall, if all goes well, a revolutionary new undersea vessel will be lowered gently into the waters of Monterey Bay for its maiden voyage. Named Deep Flight I, the 14-ft.-long, 2,900-lb. vehicle is shaped like a chubby, winged torpedo but flies like an underwater bird. Compared with the hard-to-maneuver submersibles that now haul deep-sea explorers sluggishly around the oceans, Deep Flight is an aquatic F-16 fighter. It can perform barrel rolls, race a fast-moving pod of whales or leap vertically right out of the sea. With a touch...