Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urged on by Rhee's national policemen, rushed the NNSC compound, shouting. "Poles and Czechs, go home!" They pushed down the fence and stoned the U.S. guards; in one of their trucks, guards found six machine guns. The worst fighting broke out at Wolmi Island, the wooded, humpbacked pile where the U.S. marines staged their amphibious assault on Inchon in 1950. Screaming Koreans tried to rush the causeway that joins the island to the mainland, and others stormed ashore from junks. One Korean got shot and two were wounded while trying to land at Wolmi. The G.I.s barricaded...
...Moreover, the British announced, they are already operating a small, experimental "one-for-one" breeder reactor that produces one new neutron fuel for every neutron it consumes-well above the one-for-ten "reproduction rate" of U.S. breeder reactors. Named the Zephyr (for Zero Energy Fast Reactor), the new pile uses plutonium, produces little electric power, is designed solely as a steppingstone to self-sufficiency in atomic fuel...
HOTELS Connie's Baby All week long the immense, Y-shaped hotel building in Los Angeles rattled and rang while an army of workmen struggled with crisis piled upon crisis. The air conditioning refused to work; the special refrigerators in each room went on the blink; the rooftop water tank overflowed into the handsomely decorated L'Escoffier restaurant, soaking the deep-pile carpets. Rats invaded the basement and chewed on the beautiful hand-woven furniture designed for the presidential suite; one woman employee caught a toe in a mouse trap. But this week, finally, Conrad Hilton, the world...
...Nobody outside the Kremlin can say for sure. But there is every reason to believe her real, ultimate objective remains the same as always-to set up a universal Communist dictatorship run from Moscow. She thinks she can make better progress by concealing her bloodstained bludgeon under a pile of olive branches and trying the more subtle art of poison. By lulling the West she can revert to her early plot to gain control of the world by infiltration, through her fifth columns and similar subversive agents trained in Moscow...
Gangling John Henry is a goodhearted scientist who has discovered a mildly radioactive substance called Taurum while experimenting with gold at an atomic pile. Taurum turns into a crop multiplying wonder drug when applied to the soil. And John Henry, in search of more gold to convert, is soon in a head-whirling spin on the Washington merry-go-around. Author Alfred (Raising a Riot) Toombs's hot-weather farce hilariously ribs and roams the nation's capital, from cocktail binges to congressional investigations. The underlying moral, if there is one, is that the national sense of humor...