Word: names
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour or so through the placid West Country from London, Bath in its heyday was the unofficial second capital of England, where royalty, bucks and dandies gambled, flirted and soaked in the mildly radioactive waters that gave the town its name. The springs (120° F) still gush a quarter of a million gallons a day as they did for the Romans, and for Richard ("Beau") Nash who came to Bath in 1705 and inspired the construction of its great Palladian crescents and squares of honeygold sandstone. Richard Brindsley Sheridan eloped from 11 Royal Crescent with Elizabeth Linley, whose family later...
...five brothers, Ilie is a major general, Ion is a deputy minister of agriculture, Marin is a counsel at the Rumanian embassy in Vienna, and Florea is a senior editorial writer for the party newspaper, Scinteia. His brother Nicolae (in Rumania, brothers sometimes have the same first name) is consul-general in Kiev...
...these steps, which should bring the reactor temperature down to around 93° C (200° F), are only a prelude to the grand finale: a kind of exercise in Yankee ingenuity that the engineers are calling natural circulation. It is an apt name and involves elements of physics taught in grade school. Bypassing the residual heat removal system, the heat will be transported out of the core by free convection-the principle at work when hot water circulates in a simmering teakettle...
...What does your analyst say?" It is the man's first, natural response when the handsome woman tells him she is going to return to her last lover. Since she is on a first-name basis with the doctor, she replies: "Donny's in a coma. He had a bad acid experience." She sees nothing unusual in this. What do medical ethics or traditions weigh when measured against modishness...
Cecil Rhodes was the same kind of man as Engelhard, and he made his money from the same source. Why not persuade this year's six Rhodes scholars to reject their scholarships, or at the very least insist that the name be changed...