Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human. Girls took to throwing their arms around the guards while chums snapped pictures to be sent home. Some sentries suffered the indignity of having toffee apples stuck on their bayonets; others found as they started off on their 25 paces that their shoelaces had been tied together. This summer has been especially galling: tourists have poked, tickled, thrown banana peels or ice-cream cups underfoot, sung out derisive marching orders, brazenly grabbed at the guards and screamed: "Look, he's real!" But no matter what the tourists did-"They seem to think we're exhibits...
...trailed by a dozen Jeeps loaded with gun-slung Arabs and a cavalcade of cars packed with politicians and journalists, Jordan's 23-year-old King Hussein sped westward one day last week from his hot, dusty capital of Amman. On the approach to the Palestinian hills the summer's last harvesters winnowed the wheat by throwing forkfuls in the air as in Old Testament times. As the caravan passed, they chanted in unison: "Welcome, Hussein, welcome, our King." In Nablus, traditional center of opposition to the crown, 4,000 citizens jammed the square to roar: "Long live...
...Iowa road a posse stopped Iowa's corn-fed Poet Paul Engle, warned him that two jailbirds, self-sprung from a nearby prison farm, might be lurking around Engle's summer home, a rambling old stone house near Cedar Rapids. Quipped Engle's car companion, daughter Mary, 18: "Oh, we'll probably find them at our house!" They did. The fugitives, a forger and an auto thief, had already held Engle's wife for nearly five hours, also had daughter Sara, 14, at kitchen-knifepoint. In the three hours that followed, the resourceful Engle family...
Soon Project Tepee was soaking up all the back-scatters it could handle. With experience. Thaler found he could distinguish and identify the special characteristics of everything from summer lightning to Polaris missiles, thermonuclear detonations and the aurora borealis. Last summer, in the line of his regular duty, Thaler directed the Navy's Argus Project, in which atom bombs were exploded 300 miles above the South Atlantic (TIME, March 30). In Washington, some 7,000 miles away, a Project Tepee set picked up the shots. The same set had also successfully registered the Teak and Kettle high-altitude thermonuclear...
...operative reason was Governor Orval Faubus. Already the board had rejected a "solution" by Faubus that masked segregation with an illegal veneer of "integration" (TIME, Aug. 10). And the board was painfully mindful that last summer Faubus called a sudden session of the state legislature that stopped high schools from opening all year. Though the laws that turned this trick have since been declared unconstitutional, another special session might pass new ones...