Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government, while nuclear experts checked the lingering radioactivity on their native island. Last year, when it became apparent that Rongelap would soon be free of danger, the Navy invited a handful of native leaders to come help them plan a new village in anticipation of the islanders' return. It was to include brand new modern houses with heat-resistant, rainproof aluminum roofs, a new school, a new hospital, a church, a radio station, scientifically planted groves of coconut designed for maximum copra production, plantations of papaya and breadfruit seedlings, and a whole new fleet of canoes for the local...
...from the worried souls who three years ago had called themselves "the poisoned people." Good news travels fast, and because of what the Navy and the AEC had done for their atoll, many a Rongelapese who left his home long before the H-bomb blast occurred had decided to return to it. Since island law provides that every member of a Rongelap family, whether living there or not, is entitled to a share of land, the Navy found itself returning a boatload of 275 Rongelapese to the atoll in place of the 82 it originally carried...
...daughter of Rossejlini's wife, Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, prepared to see her mother for the first time since she was twelve. With her father, Swedish-born Neurosurgeon Peter Lindstrom, she will fly to Stockholm, later travel alone to Paris, where Ingrid is starring in Tea and Sympathy, return to the U.S. in time to start her sophomore year at the University of Colorado. Brushing aside rumors of a cool relationship with Ingrid, Jennie said she expects a "wonderful reunion" with mamma...
...hero, shiftless, sodden Painter Earl worked for the British until the patriots began to win, then deserted his wife and two children and fled to England, where he subsequently deserted another wife and more children to return to America and drink himself to death...
...returned to lecture about her experiences. Still a smasher in a low-cut evening gown, she would go offstage and return in her tattered asylum gown and bring the house down in tears of indignation. Eventually Harriet was reunited with her daughter Margaret, who, after a brief stint on the Ziegfeld stage, led a useful life as an editor and teacher, and now, in her 70s, is co-author of this book...