Word: petered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California. It reported that "Scientist X" had gone to Nelson's home one night in March 1943, had read to Nelson a "complicated formula" which Nelson copied down. Several days later, Nelson got in touch with the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, met Vice Consul Peter Ivanov on the grounds of St. Francis Hospital. There, said the report, "Nelson transferred something to Ivanov ... If the matter transferred included the formula that Scientist X had given Nelson-and the inference is irresistible that it did-it was a formula of importance in the development of the atom bomb...
...Peter Kurd's open-air portrait of his daughter Carol glowed with paternal warmth and offered a modern object lesson in the egg-tempera technique of the Renaissance masters...
...spirit that is America." Then he praised the prelate for whom he had named it, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac* of Yugoslavia, railroaded to jail by Tito in 1946, as "the victim of godless Communism and a martyr to the ideals that Americans revere and cherish. He is the symbol of Peter and Paul and all the apostles and martyrs ... He also reincarnates the symbol of the fathers and mothers of America-whose thoughts, powers, sacrifices and achievements in the building of this mighty nation were motivated and inspired by the twin virtues of love of God and of country...
...Young in Heart. In Meridian, Miss., citizens turned out to welcome George L. Howe, 94, as he passed through town on a cross-country bicycle tour. In Germiston, South Africa, Peter Pringle, 118, explained why he had shaved off his beard: it made him "feel too old." In Bristol, England, Ada Ramsbotham took the occasion of her 104th birthday to reveal the secret of her longevity: "I never had a husband...
...cannot find a place to live. In fact, the young man's bachelor quarters are a treetop in Central Park-the first intimation that Heaven on Earth aims to be as cute as all hell. It gets colossally so when a roguish, broguish cabbie named James Aloysius McCarthy (Peter Lind Hayes) sets up as fairy godfather to the lovers. Slow-paced and ponderous, Heaven on Earth combines the elfin and the elephantine...