Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...street fighters and terrorists put down their arms. A delegation from Beirut's Moslem rebels even paid a courtesy coffee call on their former enemies at the headquarters of the Christian Phalange. The U.S. embassy declared the situation so improved that it was safe for American dependents to return to the country. The new Cabinet rescinded an earlier order expelling Nasser's ambassador from Beirut. The gesture reflected Lebanon's new-style neutralism -a desire to live in harmony with both the West and with Nasser, though becoming an ally of neither. And that was quite...
Augustin Jean Fresnel lost his job as an engineer with the French government in 1815 because he opposed Napoleon's return from Elba. Then he turned his fertile, inventive brain to the problem of getting lighthouses to give more light. Little recognized in his short (1788-1827) life, Fresnel (pronounced Fray-nell) wrought an optical revolution and indirectly saved untold lives by junking the mirrors on which lighthouses had long depended, instead put the light source inside a cylindrical lens with multiple-refracting bands at top and bottom. The resulting Fresnel lens (commonly pronounced Frez-nel) still has many...
...Mackay, who spent nearly 20 years as a minister and teacher in Latin America, has the combative stance of a Presbyterian caught in a crowd of Roman Catholics, has campaigned vigorously against persecution of Protestants in Catholic Spain, against the dangers of religious syncretism within Protestantism, for a return to dynamic theology...
COMMUTER SUBSIDY will be tried by Philadelphia in six-month test. City council will give $160,000 to the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads. In return, rails will increase commuter trains to and from suburban Chestnut Hill, and pare one-way fare from...
Women and Thomas Harrow, by John P. Marquand. Once again beyond the Point of No Return, this time on a lifelong journey between Broadway and New England...