Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the House investigators introduced into evidence photostatic copies of Adams' paid-up hotel bills. He secretly slipped into Boston for a three-hour lunch with Old Friend Bernie Goldfine. Then he flew back to Washington to draw up a 766-word statement to the House subcommittee, sent it to the President, who, Press Secretary Hagerty announced, "thinks that these are the full facts...
...rebel band blew up Premier Sami Solh's vacant home on the edge of Beirut's Moslem quarter. By that night a reported 50 had been killed. The brigade-size Lebanese army, which has been content to be a fire department instead of a combat force, sent armored cars through the streets with searchlights probing rooftops for snipers, held the rebel forces to their old Moslem-quarter strongholds in both Beirut and Tripoli. The U.S. declared an "alert status" for Lebanon, and its Beirut embassy prepared to evacuate the families of U.S. Government employees who wished to leave...
...will make that known," snapped De Gaulle-and promptly released the text of a telegram that he had sent to Salan: "Concerning the annoying and untimely incident caused by the peremptory motion of the Committee of Public Safety of Algiers, I remind you that this committee has no other rights and role than to express, under your control, the opinions of its members...
...makes the shelter safe against anything but a direct hit by a nuclear bomb. The ventilating system has a capacity of 1,000,000 cu. ft. of air per hour, and the Swedes have learned a lesson from the wartime bombing of Hamburg, when raging fires in the city sent superheated air surging into the shelters, suffocated and burned their inhabitants alive. In case of fire above ground, the Swedish ventilators can be shut off while built-in oxygen machines make the air livable. ¶ In Göteborg the subterranean refuge extends for seven stories underground; in Malm...
...college paper, The Red and Black. It left Catholic students (275 in an enrollment of 5,500) hopping mad. Members of the Newman Club promptly consulted with Father Cronan F. Kelly, director of the Catholic student center, decided on a counterblast. The resulting document relaxed a tense situation and sent students home for vacation in high good humor...