Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undaunted, Author Vian, an early-flowering French beatnique with a strong commercial sense, went on to write hit songs, cabaret acts, serious plays. He even translated some books that were actually American: General Omar Bradley's A Soldier's Story, The Three Faces of Eve, Young Man with...
Instinct Alone. It was not over. The weather, good for twelve days, burst with a snowstorm. All landmarks disappeared; at one point they were near panic at the thought of starvation when someone spotted the blade of an ice ax that Jake had whimsically stuck beside a food cache, a...
Alvarez' first model was all glass and only 2 in. in diameter. When it worked, he gradually increased his chambers to 2 in., 4 in., 10 in., and each step multiplied the difficulties until the laboratory blossomed with safety devices. Yet the 10 in. chamber spotted tricks of Bevatron...
The tight French defenses on the Morice Line had been partially flooded, and the rebels had slipped through them the day before from a Tunisian base camp, carrying money and supplies to reinforce rebels hiding in Algeria's Kabylie Mountains. They obviously hoped, by a bold stroke, to counter...
Down from Woods Hole came the U.S.'s only full-fledged oceanographic vessel, the trim ketch Atlantis. Led by a tall, smiling young Harvard professor with the wonderful name of Columbus O'Donnell Iselin II, Woods Hole's oceanographers began dunking thermometers in the water, quickly spotted...