Word: rest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon, fresh in dark grey summer-weight suit and light grey tie, emerged blinking into the sunlight from the forward hatch, followed in a few moments by Wife Pat, by the President's brother, Milton Eisenhower, by the Navy's Atomic Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover and the rest of an official party...
...thus smooth the way for improvements, but in 20 years of Francisco Franco, the Spanish economy has seen precious little improvement. Partly to blame were the aftermath of Spain's ruinous Civil War, the international war that followed, and the long years of political isolation. But the rest lay in Franco's inept administering, in Spain's archaic economic system, and perhaps in those national qualities described by a 19th century Spanish statesman: "I do not know where we are going, but I do know this-that wherever it is, we shall lose...
...patriotic attempt to save the honor of a nation. Postwar German courts absolved the plotters of treason, and each July 20, German newspapers have published eulogies of the conspirators. But the old argument about unquestioning loyalty in wartime lived on among diehard anti-July 20 officers, while the rest of the country preferred to forget the incident along with everything else connected with the last years of Hitler. Finally, last March, President Theodor Heuss delivered a speech before the Bundeswehr Officer Training Academy of Hamburg in which he flatly declared the July 20 plot to be part of the Bundeswehr...
Lambda particles are short-lived packets of matter created when high-energy protons hit protons at rest. Since each particle is presumed to have its "anti" counterpart, scientists have long been looking for anti-lambda. Faint traces of the elusive particle showed last year on photographic plates exposed to the 6 billion-volt Berkeley Bevatron, but the plates were too small to tell much of the anti-lambda story...
...bulk of his collection in Paris and London. The London half was bombed out in World War II; the Paris half was hidden deep in a Norman well, later confiscated by the French government. Of the 400 works from the well, France kept a choice 29, returned the rest to Japan...