Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victim is informed, through the intermediary of the prepositor of the week, that "The headmaster wishes to see him after twelve . . ." He will be met by the school messenger (usually an ex-soldier of the regular army), who leads him up to the ancient, oak-paneled room where stands the famous block...
...steel plant in Latin America (No. 1: Brazil's Volta Redonda). Where fishermen had spread their nets to dry, there was an 890-ft. dock. Modern brick houses for 4,000 workers were springing up in a planned industrial city which Chileans proudly compared to Oak Ridge...
...period, undergraduates began to eye it nervously. Perhaps it was the reflection of a year in which Durocher joined the Giants, Harvard beat Yale, and Harry S. Truman won an election; or worse, it might be the result of some miscalculation deep in a lead-lined atomic pile at Oak Ridge. Whatever it was, it spawned a strange, unreasoning fear--a fear that no bravado, no artificial courage could erase...
Hitlerian Promises. That night's daring work-the sinking of the Royal Oak-was one of the most clear-cut successes that the German navy achieved in World War II. Winston Churchill admiringly called it an "incredible . . . feat of arms." This book is a selection of the papers from some 60,000 files of German naval archives, containing practically all the official ships' logs, diaries and memoranda relating to the German navy up to April 1945. Hitler and His Admirals, unlike Liddell Hart's The German Generals Talk, contains no postwar interviews with German officers. Nor does...
...Graham became president of the Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Institute of Nuclear Studies, a position in which he was to be given access to confidential U.S. military information. The Security Office of the Atomic Energy Commission took one look at Frank Graham's FBI file, thicker than a metropolitan telephone book, and refused to clear him for access to atomic information. Then the AEC made its own investigation. Last week, it cleared Graham. It was true, the commission conceded, that Graham, in espousing liberal causes, had at times been associated with persons and organizations "influenced by motives or views...