Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposition) to recommend $4.3 billion in new and carried-over money for the program. Aside from the total sum itself, the big clash was over an amendment by Knowland and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges to cut off military aid to Yugoslavia. The amendment was defeated, but the pair have promised to renew the battle when the bill goes to the balky Senate this week. Predicted Minnesota's Edward Thye wearily: "We're going to have a hard and bitter fight...
...Pair of Creation. In 1932, physicists discovered that positive electrons (positrons) are created out of energy by cosmic rays. They can also be made artificially by high-energy gamma rays from radioactive elements. Positrons do not last long; as soon as one of them hits a normal electron, both particles are annihilated, turning back into the energy out of which they were made. But the proof that positrons exist was a victory for believers in nature's symmetry. Better still was the fact when a positron is created, it always appears in a "pair" with an ordinary negative electron...
...most of their neighbors, because they were making military equipment. Three weeks ago, when the military orders were cut back for lack of raw materials, the Communist management slashed the workers' wages 30% to the starvation level normal for Polish workers (a month's work for a pair of leather shoes). The locomotive workers sent a delegation to Warsaw's Communist bureaucrats to plead their case, but, having little hope of relief, they organized a strike...
...onetime journalistic wunderkind on the San Francisco Chronicle, wants to start a newsmagazine. Smith already has added a phonograph-record division to Crowell-Collier, is shopping for a daily newspaper and in the last two months has bought six radio and four TV stations across the U.S., including a pair in Honolulu. Under his three-year regime, the company's profitable book division ( Collier's Encyclopedia, the Harvard Classics) is expected to double its business by the end of this year to an estimated $22 million in annual sales, and the company as a whole was able last...
Gumshoe. In Davenport, Iowa, arrested after he was spotted in a park carrying a high-priced pair of men's sandals, Anthony Ortiz explained to police: "I happened to fall through a department-store window and the sandals somehow became attached...