Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uplands. Last June, Buddhist Bao Dai personally took the oath of allegiance of a Moi tribal chief. The Mois still live under their ancient tribal laws, including the one that covers adultery. The first time an adulterous wife is caught, her lover is punished for seducing her. The second time, she is punished for permitting herself to be seduced again. The third time, the husband is punished-for not knowing how to keep her in line...
When Jawaharlal Nehru visits the U.S. next week he will doubtless get the welcome appropriate to a national liberator and the Premier of the world's second most populous country. Yet no matter how the motorcycles' sirens scream or the ticker tape flutters, his U.S. reception will not be a patch on the welcome he got two weeks ago in his ancestral home, Srinagar...
Dodger Day. Exactly 36 minutes later in Philadelphia's Shibe Park, the Dodgers hauled in the National League pennant with a 9-7 ten-inning victory over the Phillies. In the final week, they had gone to the top of the league (after six weeks in second place) by winning a crashing doubleheader in the rain over the Boston Braves (9-2 and 8-0). But they had less reason to thank their own bats than the batty stretch-run performance of the Cardinals...
...second show, the band went back to the sweet and swoony, and it was lucky they did. The Chicago Herald & Examiner's redoubtable Critic Ashton Stevens covered the performance, closed his review with the line that, for dancers, has identified Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians through two decades: "The sweetest music this side of heaven." Probably because Guy has kept it the same old sweet and danceable way ever since, he has survived-while ripplers, swingsters, hoppers and scoffers who called him the "King of Corn" fell by the wayside. And because he survived, and earned a reputation...
...speed of light is science's most revered measuring stick. Among countless other uses, the figure-299,776 kilometers per second-has been built into radars, which measure distances by the time it takes radio waves (traveling at the same speed as light) to cover them...