Word: rim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen at Trinity last week could not leave their cars at the crater's rim without first donning canvas overshoes to protect themselves against burns from radioactive material which might lodge in their shoes. Scientists with radiometers like long-lensed cameras found several "hot spots" near the inner crater's edge, warned others to stay away. Reporters who enthusiastically pocketed souvenir bits of crater glass had second thoughts when someone recalled the effects of radiation on fertility. The radiometers proved that some of the souvenirs were actually still dangerous...
...time and money between films, tool making, a brewery, flying and financing, owns about 45% of T.W.A. stock. Pan Am, with impish innocence, reminded the CAB of this. By nightfall, Washington remembered that Frye was best man when Elliott Roosevelt married Cinemactress Faye Emerson on the Grand Canyon rim last December. Hollywood instantly recalled that Elliott met Faye through Johnny Meyer, a talent scout and handy man for Hughes. All this occurred while Franklin Roosevelt was in the White House, and before the CAB had ruled on the T.W.A. applications...
...British Empire, oil-rich, rubber-rich Sarawak is an in dependent patch on the northwest rim of Dutch Borneo. Britain's control stops at defense and foreign affairs. For a century Sarawak was the absolute domain of the Brooke dynasty, founded in 1841, when a swashbuckling English adventurer, James Brooke, quelled an insurrection there for the Sultan of Brunei and proclaimed himself Raja...
...soon. Young Craig, 13, will go to school in Moscow, and he and his mother are both studying Russian on phonograph records. But travel to Russia is rugged these days even for a man. (Thompson went in an ATC plane that carried him across the Atlantic and the rim of Africa to Teheran, where the Russians picked him up and flew him over the Caucasus and into the Soviet Union. "The trip," he reported, "was cold, uncomfortable-and wonderful...
Only around the rim of the Bohemian bastion were Wehrmacht divisions on the offensive. Probable German objective: to hold this natural fortress for a last fanatical stand...