Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boat without rocking it. At one point, they got stuck over the problem of whether the West and East Germans at Geneva should be described as "advisers who participated," as the West wanted, or "participants who advised," as Gromyko wanted. Typically, the ministers decided just to avoid any mention of the subject...
...wrote St. Ambrose 70 years later) "had excavations made, the debris cleared away and unearthed three crucifixion trees huddled together and covered with mud . . . She also set out to look for the nails which had pinned the Lord to the Cross and found them." Chronicler Ambrose did not mention the tunic, but tradition has it that she gave it to the city of Trier (Augusta Treverorum to the Romans), along with one nail and a piece of the Cross...
...Britain tried to stand in Rhodesia's way. Sir Roy had said "I personally would never be prepared to accept that Rhodesians have less guts than the American colonists." Since the government had jailed Nyasa-land's African leader, Dr. Hastings Banda, Bevan challenged Lennox-Boyd "to mention anything that Dr. Banda has said which is more provocative than that." More solemnly, Bevan continued: "We are really trying to decide how to solve a problem which, if it is not solved, will continue to bleed us for generations." And then, in a peroration that was only...
...Blue Pencil. Almost from the start, the Soviet censors reneged on the government's promise to pass all copy unscathed. Glavlit, the Soviet censorship agency, combed some of the outgoing cables carefully, eliminating, among other things, mention of its own blue-pencil activity. The American Broadcasting Co. was ruled off the international air in Moscow" for "tampering" with Khrushchev's lines in his famed kitchen debate with Nixon at the American exhibition-a charge that the U.S. State Department promptly rejected...
...radioactive iso-fopes of strontium. With atomic numbers 85 and 87, these are less deadly than strontium 89 or 90, but still have enough activity for their presence and distribution in the body to be checked by radiation counters. Missing from the evidence being studied in this test: any mention of how much strong, black tea the volunteers were tippling...