Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summery Seine as the nearby French Foreign Office. A 64-year-old World War I veteran, Louis-Christophe Gaillard was a vacation substitute for the regular concierge at the Hotel du Tabac (so called because it used to house the French state tobacco monopoly). He shuffled into the main conference room, where a council meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation had just ended. Gaillard moved around the green-clothed table, carefully collecting cigarette butts from the overbrimming ashtrays...
India's main weapon so far has been a tight blockade. Machinery and trucks labeled for Hyderabad have piled up in Bombay. In Hyderabad imported food supplies have dwindled and the price of potatoes has soared to $1 a pound. The airline that connected Hyderabad with Indian cities is suspended. The Nizam's officials admit privately that Hyderabad might not be able to survive another six months...
...supplies and the military advice of General James A. Van Fleet's men were essential elements in the victory. The main credit, however, belonged to the hard-bitten Greek infantrymen, like those who wept last week on Grammos...
...actors and crew. Then he set sail for a twelve-week cruise up & down the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. Each morning in port, the students pick the night's hero, choose the villain, and who shall sell tickets and popcorn. Then they parade down the town's main street, drumming up trade for the evening...
Hydrogen and its helium "ashes," while by far the most abundant, are not the only chemical elements which can be detected by sharp-eyed astronomers. The "main sequence" stars have, identically the same-composition as the sun: for every atom of any metal there are some six atoms of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, 500 atoms of helium, and 5,000 atoms of hydrogen (still to be burned). The same proportions of atoms exist in the near vacuum of interstellar space. Not only do the universe's largest bodies behave in much the same fashion as its smallest atoms...