Word: reflect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This time the news had the ring of authenticity. It was not the story of a glittering princess who had found her Prince Charming in the fairyland of Mayfair, but of a girl whose increasingly sober face in the newspictures seemed to reflect a deeply troubled heart. The fact was that 22-year-old Margaret was in love with a Battle-of-Britain hero of the R.A.F., a divorced commoner of 38. Family loyalty, religious responsibility, the duty of royalty-all seemed warring with the romantic impulse in the pretty princess' heart...
...Daily Racing Form, Morning Telegraph and Official Detective Stories, Annenberg says proudly: "Everything's in the black." He runs the empire from his cavernous, richly decorated Inquirer office, where he sits in front of a small bronze plaque engraved with the words: "Cause my works on earth to reflect honor on my father's memory." One memory of his father, the late Moses L. ("Moe") Annenberg, that lingers in U.S. history is a three-year prison term for evading $1,217,296 in income taxes. That part of the memory, says son Walter, "has been like a whip...
...four decades in which the PHS has been planning its Clinical Center, the emphasis in medical research has switched from infectious diseases to the chronic, disabling illnesses which are estimated to afflict 25 million in the U.S. The subdivisions of the National Institutes of Health reflect the change: one each for cancer, heart disease, mental health, arthritis and metabolic diseases, neurological diseases and blindness. The only major infectious disease remaining high on the N.I.H. list is rheumatic fever, which can permanently damage the heart...
...part, these successes reflect the fact that Stratton was working with a legislature controlled by his own party. (Adlai Stevenson had a majority in only the lower house during his first session, in neither during the second.) But the Stratton successes also refect a high degree of practical political ability...
...chain reaction. In the early days of the Los Alamos atom-bomb laboratory, critical points were determined by hand, by physicists who felt a little jumpy. The start of a chain reaction cannot be predicted dependably. Even a human hand moving near a mass that is barely subcritical can reflect enough neutrons into it to start the reaction and loose a cold and silent flood of death-dealing radiation...