Word: mets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incredibly mismanaged." He had told them everything they had wanted to know. He had kept no secrets from them, with one major exception: the number of bombs in the stockpile, withheld at the committee's own jittery request. Last session, AEC had sent the committee 100 letters and met with it 25 times. There were almost daily discussions between staffs of the committee and the AEC. "[But] the real issue," he summed up, "is how we are going to answer these charges that shake the confidence of the people...
Armored cars paraded through flag-draped Prague last week. Outside the huge Industrial Palace stood a cordon of Czech security police carrying Tommy guns. Inside, 1,000 delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Czech Communist Party met. Joseph Stalin was named "honorary chairman" of the meeting; his representative, Cominform Boss Georgy Malenkov, attended in his stead. The congress sent a telegram to "Dear Comrade Stalin": "We shall always stand faithfully by the side of the U.S.S.R...
Then the victorious Turks met the Italians. With five minutes to play and the score tied, Italy's outside right passed to his center forward who passed to the inside left who kicked a goal. The Turks claimed the inside left was offside. The Greek referee failed to allow the Turkish objection and declared Italy the winner...
...Quackenbos' Principles of Rhetoric. No matter how he struggled, young Archibald Henderson of Salisbury, N.C. could not understand it. Finally one day his teacher blew up, slammed the Principles shut, threw the book at Henderson, and sent him from his classroom forever. "In Quackenbos," recalls Archibald Henderson, "I met my master...
...met few others. In time, Henderson became head of the mathematics department at the University of North Carolina, one of the top historians of the South, and a biographer of George Bernard Shaw. He mastered so many fields of learning that G.B.S. called him "the Grand Panjandrum." "He is the only man in the world," added Yale's late William Lyon Phelps, "who can talk professionally on equal terms with Einstein and . . . Shaw...