Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rebel Colors. Along the road, the mementos of war abound: a concrete monument to a taxi driver who was tortured and shot by Batista soldiers; the burned hulk of a bus, rusting and grown over with weeds; bullet holes in the roadside huts; the twisted girders of dynamited bridges, and the shaky timbers of temporary spans, where the water rushes hubcap-high. The road signs are newly painted black and red-the rebel colors...
...over the year before. Even making allowances for statistical overenthusiasm, the U.N. still estimated that the increase in national product "seems to have been of the order of 50%." While the U.S. gross national product dropped nearly i%, according to the figures, China's national product had shot up five times as fast as that of the Soviet Union. "It is noteworthy," added the experts, "that the rate of output of crops was obtained without any appreciable increase in the sown area...
Despite a climate in which anything grows, despite proven oilfields, brimming natural resources and a population of 87 million. Indonesia is mired by pocket-sized rebellions, technical ineptitude and whimsical administration. An overworked printing press has lately shot the rupiah (legally pegged at 11.40 to the dollar) as high as 200 on the black market. Commodity prices have risen 40% since January. And while its economy was deteriorating at an accelerated rate, its politics and its government were at a standstill...
...Golf. The first bubble chamber, invented in 1953 by Dr. Donald Glaser of the University of Michigan, was a glass tube filled with ether at a temperature that would make it start to boil when pressure was suddenly reduced. If high-energy particles (e.g., protons from a cyclotron) are shot into the ether at the right moment, lines of bubbles form on their trails, thus showing where the particles go and how they interact with atoms in the ether. When Inventor Glaser delivered his classic paper at a Washington physics convention. Physicist Luis Alvarez, associate director of the Radiation...
...Levand of the Wichita Beacon, who owes the Government nearly $10,000 in taxes." When Marcellus Murdock's daughter went East and married a Jew, the Eagle said nothing, but the Beacon told about it in all too enthusiastic detail. When a girl staffer at the Beacon shot herself, the Eagle tried to associate a Levand with the case. A rumor that a Murdock relative was homosexual caused the Beacon to campaign for an ordinance to require the registration and fingerprinting of every pervert in town. So deep is the feud that it extends to the personal relationships...