Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plain fact is that in our defense planning and its political framework," he added, "we did not envisage such a situation developing out of a rising behind the Iron Curtain...
...plain fact," he said, "is that all that exists in the defenses of Europe today is a trip wire, with no absolute certainty of exactly what the trip wire would set off. One can hardly describe that as a very impressive achievement...
...Estonians. Latecomers to Central Europe, fierce fighters and skillful horsemen, they were driven southward over the centuries from their early home on the slopes of Siberia's Ural Mountains, and in 895, under the leadership of their tribal chief Arpad, crossed over the Carpathian Mountains into the great plain that is now Hungary...
...seized him and occupied Buda. He was later released by the U.S. Seventh Army from Nürnberg prison, now lives in Portugal, and at 88 has recently written his autobiography. Once again, as the Germans withdrew in 1944, conquerors swept down from the East to overrun the Hungarian plain, to rape, to pillage and to lay waste the once-gay Danube city of Budapest. This time they were Russian Communists, and close behind them as they marched came another army of political agitators, experts of the secret police, and a parasitic host of Hungarian expatriate Communists. In the first...
Particle Wanted. Dr. Alvarez, spokesman for the group who made the discovery, wants to make plain that catalytic mesons do not offer direct means for releasing fusion energy in commercial amounts. There is no dependable source of mesons at present except giant machines like the Berkeley bevatron. Worse still, mu mesons are short-lived, decaying into other particles in two-millionths of a second, so they have little time to act as catalysts. If a longer-lived particle could be found that does the catalytic service, the reaction would look promising indeed. The Russian physicist Artemy Alikhanian claims to have...