Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WOULD EXTEND COURT AT BESSEMER), and was printed verbatim on page 2 of the Gazette. "It was a note that came up at press time, when there was no one around." moaned beet-red Editor Hallman, "and . . . and ... it was just one of those things...
...nose cone rode an extraordinary cargo: two young female monkeys, Able and Baker.* Monkey Able, a greyish, 6-lb. rhesus, was a graduate of a school at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington. D.C., where she and her classmates were taught to press a lever when a red light flashed. If the lever went unpressed, the monkeys got electric shocks in their furry behinds. Monkey Able was also conditioned to being strapped into a capsule, to wearing a miniature helmet and tolerating noise, vibration and the indignities attendant to the attaching of instruments to her body...
...when the nose cone plunged back toward the earth. The capsule, a 250-lb. cylinder 41 in. long and 18 in. in diameter, contained a heating and cooling system and provided a change of air every 30 seconds. Before Abie's eyes was the light that would flash red. and close to her skinny fingers was the button that she had been trained to push. Monkey Baker, a graduate of the Naval Aviation School of Medicine at Pensacola, was a fluffy South American squirrel-monkey weighing only 11 oz. Wearing a tiny helmet, she rode in a smaller cylindrical...
...elevated platform, with its black-and-red-lacquered railings and its bright green flooring, four dancers in silk brocade robes turned their green-masked faces to the audience. The translucent music wavered hypnotically, swelling and fading in little drum-punctuated strands of sound. The dancers flexed their knees slowly, extended their slippered feet to describe airy figures on the dance cloth...
...Protestant waters when the Fifth World Order Study Conference, meeting in Cleveland last fall, came out flatfooted in favor of both recognition and admittance. The Presbyterians were careful to tread more softly. A resolution drafted by the Committee on Social Education and Action noted that "immediate recognition of [Red China] may not be feasible," but commended the Fifth World Order Study Conference for "dealing courageously and honestly with vital issues that may be controversial." The Assembly's second resolution on the subject was reported by the Standing Committee on Bills...