Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...document called for constitutional amendments that would give Rhodesia's overwhelming black majority an immediate minority voice in the government, yet preserve white rule for a period that Wilson estimated would last about ten years. A Royal Commission composed of Rhodesians would draft the necessary amendments, which would be submitted to "Rhodesians as a whole" for approval. In the meantime, censorship would be lifted, political prisoners freed and "normal" political activity permitted. The Rhodesian Parliament, whose hard-line white-supremacist majority might try to block the new constitution, would be dissolved and all legislative powers handed over to British...
...friends and relatives waited for the ships carrying the survivors and the blanket-shrouded bodies. By week's end 47 had been rescued, but the death toll was put at 234, making it one of the worst sea tragedies in Greek history. The government ordered a three-day period of national mourning...
...simulate fires in orbit, the scientists loaded test chambers containing high concentrations of oxygen into KC-135 jet transports and flew them through parabolic arcs, creating 30 seconds of zero gravity during each maneuver. In the brief period of weightlessness, they ignited a variety of materials within the test chambers and took color movies of the results. Though the fires lit up promptly, the flames began to die down within 1½ seconds; they simply smoldered or went out completely during the remaining period of weightlessness. Scientists estimated that the burning rates of test materials were reduced by as much...
...months. When the Mediterranean trough showed up near Italy during October and the corresponding Atlantic trough was located off the U.S. coast, Israeli winter rainfall was from 20% to 60% above normal. Krown also determined that in each of the three years of normal rainfall during the November-January period, one trough spent much of October over the central Mediterranean between Italy and Crete, while an accompanying trough formed over the mid-Atlantic...
...often by real life, and in the world of reporting and commentary. Most novels today represent the fears rather than the hopes of man. Maybe that's one trouble: the mood is too pessimistic. But it's a gloomy world. We're not in a happy period of our history...