Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expense of the cloud's smoke-sized water droplets. Eventually the cloud turns to snowflakes that are big and heavy enough to fall through the air and hit the earth as snow or rain. All this can sometimes be made to happen by releasing materials (such as silver iodide smoke) that encourage ice crystals to form in a moderately cold cloud. But this is an artificial process; in nature some clouds give snow and rain while others just as cold...
Mason's next step was to cool droplets containing microscopic nuclei made of substances that are common in powder-fine dust blown up from the earth's surface. A few kinds proved almost as effective as silver iodide smoke, but most required very low temperatures before they could turn cold clouds into snow...
...Home. An adaptation of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family, that offers more small coins of pure silver and less stage money than any other U.S. play this season...
...North Vietnamese to teach the Laotians how to use their new weapons. At his stronghold to the south, Savannakhet, General Phoumi countered by convening most of the members of the National Assembly. They voted Prince Souvanna out of office and named as the new Premier Boun Oum, a silver-haired, pro-U.S. princeling from Laos' lush southern hill country. Then by river boat, foot and plane, three battalions of Phoumi's troops moved on Vientiane...
...time of Prince Karl the princes of Liechtenstein were collectors not so much of art as of booty. Then Karl, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and an Imperial viceroy in Prague put a palaceful of artists and artisans at work turning out paintings and works of silver and gold. His son, Karl Eusebius was even more ardent. He was the delight of Vienna and Antwerp art dealers, for he would buy up whole collections at a time, and added such names to his catalogue as Memling and Van der Goes. He once instructed his son:"With your consort...