Word: ringeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kilty always likes to include crowds of colorful townspeople where appropriate. Here some two dozen persons appeared from time to time--throwing dice, playing ring-toss, pitching apples, turning cartwheels, washing laundry and running about with flambeaux...
Speeches & Exhibits. The delegates came loaded with 2,300 scientific papers, 600 of which they were to present orally at five parallel series of meetings, with often baffled translators trying to deliver the highly technical texts in four languages. Along with this scientific five-ring circus ran two monster exhibitions, technical and commercial. The U.S. technical exhibit, which many visitors consider a triumph, and much better than the U.S. effort at the Brussels World's Fair, is staffed by white-coated scientists and 50 attractive, multilingual girls, who were put through a three-week crash course in basic nucleonics...
...most intense above the equator and weakest above the poles. He theorizes that it consists of protons, trapped by the earth's magnetic field, which spiral around lines of magnetic force at right angles. Thus a manned vehicle (launched near the poles) might carry a lightweight shielding ring to avoid proton concentrations, or use magnetic screening to repel them. Also possible: a satellite designed to "sweep out" a channel by absorbing protons, allowing a manned vehicle to follow safely...
...began of four young men and an Arab Christian girl charged with bomb throwing. Nonetheless, King Hussein was feeling secure enough to order the release of 50 army officers who had been held on suspicion of disloyalty. Not to be outdone, Israel announced it had uncovered "the biggest spy ring ever discovered" with the arrest of twelve Israeli Arabs who were working under the direction of Syrian military intelligence...
...Teamsters' power to punish and intimidate. Another Minneapolis ex-Teamster, Arthur Morgan, 43, wept as he told that threats and harassment made his life "a living hell" since he testified against Teamster brass before the McClellan committee a year ago. "Every night practically." testified Morgan, "the telephone would ring all night long, and my wife would get calls that asked if the children were home from school, and she would say that they are, and they would tell her, 'Maybe you are lucky tonight, and maybe you won't be so lucky tomorrow night...