Word: veil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Absolutely Serious." Behind the veil of quiet diplomacy, the President opened a second front-trying to talk sense to the Soviets. At U.S. request, India's Nehru passed the word along to Moscow that the U.S. was "absolutely serious" about preserving Laotian freedom. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson pursued Nikita Khrushchev to Novosibirsk, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk called Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Washington. They both conveyed Kennedy's personal message: the U.S. viewed Laos as a test of the Kremlin's ultimate intentions, and would not attempt to settle any other cold war issues...
...used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all. But the ships are very slow now, and we don't get so many sailors any more." The uptown crowd has moved in, and what girl worth her seventh veil would trade a turtleneck sweater for a button-down collar...
Mason suspects that kaolinite and other "trainable" particles are carried up to 35,000 ft., where the temperature often falls to -60° F. There they gather a little ice, forming thin, veil-like cirrus clouds. When they fall through dry air, most of the ice evaporates, but tiny bits remain trapped in crevices. When these ice-seeded particles get mixed with a moderately cold cloud, they make it yield snow or rain. Mason argues that much of the earth's precipitation is wrung out of clouds by just such "trainable" earth-dust particles. Kaolinite and other kinds...
...Cathedral the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared many times and wrought miracles. In 861, three years after the church was destroyed for the first time (by the northern invader Hastings). Charles the Bald donated a treasured relic, the shift of the Virgin (now known as the Sacred Veil). By charging admission to see it, he reasoned, money could be raised for the church's rebuilding. The veil is still there, and Chartres is dedicated to the Virgin. "This church was built for her," wrote Henry Adams, "in this spirit of simpleminded, practical, utilitarian faith-in this singleness...
...King, overthrowing Iran's slack-chinned, 130-year-old Qajar dynasty by force of arms. A wiry, hot-tempered martinet, the old Shah set out to manhandle Iran into the mod ern world, and he did not mind machine-gunning obstreperous peasants to do it. He abolished the veil, and when a Moslem imam criticized the Queen for not wearing one, roared up to the mosque in a convoy of armored cars, marched in, and kicked the priest in the stomach...