Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When this study was commissioned five years ago, many people felt that academic freedom meant 'civil liberties for professors.' In those difficult days, before the McCarthy censure and the 1954 elections, many liberals saw the Fund as one of their few wealthy friends. They felt that its funds should not be wasted on the collection of statistics when more pressing problems of human rights demanded redress...
...Mexico the key word was bienvenido-welcome. There, for two days last week, the President of the U.S. saw and felt one of the warmest examples of bienvenido of his confetti-showered career. It blazoned from a sign at Acapulco's airport, rustled in the color riot of tropical vegetation, in the rugged beauty of the cliff-crowned bay, the shiny glamour of the hotels, the cheers of the people, and in the friendliness of the President, Adolfo López Mateos. President Eisenhower's trip, occasioned by his desire to demonstrate the U.S.'s deep respect...
Sometimes it came deep in the earth where Borinage miners scratch out coal from overworked shafts in constant expectation of cave-ins, poison gas, flooding, fire and explosion. More often it came on the grey, slag-heaped surface as miners coughed out their lives. Emile Zola saw the Borinage in the 1880s and poured its horror into his powerful classic, Germinal. A few aged miners still remember the emaciated, stubble-bearded Dutch preacher named Vincent Van Gogh, who lived in one of their hovels, held services and sketched their bowed bodies with fever-palsied hands...
...speeches and on TV, Castro rambled loquaciously on. He said that the U.S. role in the 1898 Spanish-American War was merely belated intervention after the Cubans had effectively beaten Spain. He attacked demagoguery and nepotism (his brother Raul is chief of the armed forces). He saw to it that Captain Jesus Sosa Blanco-the Batista officer convicted of mass murder in a circus trial in Havana's Sports Palace-got a new hearing. The judges were the same and so was the verdict: death by firing squad. Counting Sosa Blanco, 14 "war criminals" were executed last week, bringing...
...break-through came when Dr. Priester of the Bonn Observatory called Jacchia's attention to the connection between solar radio wave data and the satellites' acceration. The very first hint Jacchia saw was that two peaks in an otherwise calm period occurred at the same time on both the satellite graph and the graph of 20 cm. solar radiation. With observations of 10.7 cm radiation transmitted daily from the National Research Council at Ottawa, Canada, he took a longer look, and found the amazing correspondence between solar emission and satellite acceleration reproduced above. This one-for-one relationship...