Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under the rules of his order, he may not receive the bequest. He may 1) turn it over to the Society of Jesus, or 2 ) return it to the estate...
...liaison between the White House and scientists, kept the President informed of the best scientific thinking, helped chart the course of U.S. space policy. Last week, at 54, fittingly on the very day that the U.S. sent the first living creatures traveling through space and back, Killian resigned to return to his duties at M.I.T. His successor: Russian-born George Bogdan ("K.") Kistiakowsky, 58, brilliant professor of chemistry at Harvard and every inch a scientists' scientist...
...this was Little Rock, 20 months after segregationist rioting blazed into world headlines and 8½-months after the high schools closed rather than permit Negro children to sit with whites. This election was, in fact, a crucial test of whether Little Rock was ready to begin its return to sanity. Little Rock...
...surrendered to the Nazis and, while his nation was still occupied by Germans, married pretty Liliane Baels, the commoner daughter of a Belgian politician. At war's end Leopold moved on from Germany to Switzerland while liberated Belgium held a plebiscite to determine whether or not he should return home. Leopold's supporters narrowly carried the day, but so many riots greeted the King's arrival in Brussels that within a year Leopold surrendered the crown...
...light plane for a short flight from Havana. Next day Raul, trigger-happy commander in chief of Cuba's armed forces, turned up safe in Cuban swampland after a crash landing in a storm. Just to complicate matters, the rescue plane that picked up Raul to return him to Havana in triumph landed with another crash (jammed landing gear) near the capital. Looking more than ever like a beardless revolutionary beatnik, Raul was greeted by his staunch revolutionist wife Vilma...