Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...observers on the ground, elaborate preparations went to naught. Crowds that gathered on North Shore beaches saw only a dramatic blackening of the clouded sky. The heavy mist and cloud cover effectively blocked the view of the moon's transit, making smoked glasses and exposed x-ray film completely useless...
...Mortimer saw that the fight was over, that it was time to leave the program-littered battlefield...
Back in Peking with full notebooks, the tunnel-visioned correspondents ticked off what they saw. Lhasa-where 15,000 died in the bloody fighting-was "quite normal." Everywhere, the people smiled on their oppressors-a piece of information the reporters picked up during lunch in Shigatse with Mao's puppet Panchen Lama. Then, suntanned and refreshed by their exercise, the correspondents trotted back to their cages...
...Crater. The Russians themselves do not claim to know precisely where the Lunik landed. Astronomers from the Ukraine's Kharkov Observatory, who watched and photographed the moon at the moment of impact from a high-flying airplane, think they saw 'a light effect" at the right instant. U.S. astronomers doubt it. Moon Expert Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago thinks that no flash of impact would have been visible against the moon's sunlit surface. He questions a Hungarian report of seeing a long-lasting dust cloud on the moon. Since the moon has virtually...
...largest bowling alley-112 lanes covering a space as long as two football fields-was completed last week in Edison, N.J., by two brothers, Thomas Jr. and James Swales. Said Tom Swales: "You practically need binoculars to see from one side to the other." What the bowlers also saw was the latest sample of how the bowling boom has changed the once smoky, dusty, somewhat disreputable hangout for men into a family and community recreation center. Edison Lanes not only offers special promotions for women bowlers and cut rates for children, it also opens its meeting rooms free...