Word: personable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state program to develop a cheap "survival kit" including a water container (ten gallons a person), a two-week supply of dehydrated food, candles, a battery-powered radio and a toilet container. Urgently needed, said the task force, is another survival item "not yet in existence": a cheap, accurate, simple radiation-detection device. Radiation "cannot be seen, touched, tasted or felt," and if people in shelters had no reliable way of testing whether radiation had fallen to endurable levels outside, fear and doubt could wreck their morale and impair the nation's capacity to rebound...
...person basement shelter on a design recommended by the Federal Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (see diagram) could be built by do-it-yourself homeowners for as little as $150, reported the task force. It could be built by a contractor for less than $500. At a small additional cost, perhaps as little as $7 per person, the shelters could be prestocked with enough survival supplies to last through a critical fortnight. Since the intensity of fallout radiation diminishes rapidly, survivors in hard-hit areas could start coming out of their shelters after a fortnight and set about...
...been a mere second act to an already crowded career in the maelstrom of World War I Europe. Budapest-born, Kerekes was a Hungarian cavalryman on the Russian front (he later lost an arm), became tutor to the Habsburg family in 1917 and claims he is the only living person who knows the ''true story" of the tragedy at Mayerling. Emigrating to the U.S., he tried orange growing in Florida, wound up in 1927 as assistant professor in Georgetown's then tiny history department (now one of the nation's largest) and chairman in 1947. Though...
Viola is the one honest, sincere, and normal person in the play. Yet for most of the time she must go about abnormally disguised as a young boy, who looks like her twin brother Sebastian. The problem was quite different in Elizabethan times, since actresses were interdicted and both roles were taken by young boys. Miss McKenna is able to convey a zestful boyishness without ever losing her innate womanliness. And more than any one else in the cast, she pays attention to the poetic qualities of the text (though on opening night she sometimes lowered her voice...
...McClure believes that Hansen's unusual ability to control his heartbeat is related to rheumatic-fever damage, and "is just an exaggeration of the normal degree of control which any person's mind has over his heart actions...