Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking turns at the Mimeograph machine, they ground out letters to pupils all over the country. "The Negroes of the U.S.A.," they said, "helped liberate us. Write in Dutch (but without politics) in your own words and ask President Eisenhower to set these boys free." They called it Operation Snowball, Rotterdam...
Once again, 46 years after the Titanic, a ship was launched with the prideful label of "the safest afloat." Once again, she set off proudly on her maiden voyage manned by an expert crew and crowded with happy passengers. Once again, the cruel sea did its deadly work and made a mockery of the vanity...
Fidel Castro's "purification" of Cuba rolled on, harsh, moralistic, fervid. Purified was the vast gambling establishment, purified was government graft. Purification also drove the bearded conquerors to set aside more and more of the constitution in order to purge the losers by firing squad. Castro's men, immune to such worldly blandishments as alcohol and money, found their grim satisfactions in rows of executed Batista henchmen...
...proving ground is the 30,000 sq. mi. of tar sands underlying northern Alberta and Saskatchewan in the vicinity of Lake Athabaska. The company that thinks it can turn the trick is California's Richfield Oil Corp., which last week formally asked permission of the Canadian government to set off a nuclear charge just under the Athabaska sands...
...indefinitely, whereas many heavy crudes thicken again in cooling. The spot picked by Richfield for its experiment has rich tar sand down to a depth of 1,000 ft. Then the underlying rock begins. If the A-bomb experiment works, the first small-scale (two-kiloton) detonation will be set off in the rock strata 1,200 ft. below the ground. Engineers expect that the bomb will create a huge cavity, and heat the sand and oil. A little sand will glassify on the cavity's sides. Then they hope that the oil will be thin enough for piping...