Word: veils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelve hundred atomic scientists tucked away their well-filled notebooks, exchanged goodbyes and headed home from Geneva's Palace of Nations. After 13 veil-lifting days of give and take, the first International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (TIME, Aug. 22) was over. The talk had shed new light on every facet of peacetime atomics, from prospecting for ore to H-power. The last major debate: the biological hazards involved in nonmilitary use of the atom...
...died-enough shekels to bring fulfillment of her wildest dream, so poignantly expressed by Anita when she was billing herself in burlesque as "The Last of the Red-Hot Manvilles." "When Tommy passes on," she said, "I'll be there at the funeral with a long black veil that bulges in front. That bulge will be a little old cash register going 'cling-clang-cling...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Seventh Veil, starring Diana Lynn...
...parish priest in the villages of Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Father Witcutt drew nearer and nearer to the God that seemed to lie just behind the veil of nature and farther and farther away from the Abstract Idea and the Beatific Vision. He found that "The God of Scholasticism was unworshipable. Nor do Roman Catholics worship Him. They cannot. They worship the Sacred Heart, the Virgin, and the Saints . . . To me Roman Catholicism seemed one of two things: either a set of dry philosophical formulae or else a range of plaster-cast statues . . . What I wanted was no vision...
...last name "Arab" spelled backwards. She was born, they said, of a French artist and an Arabian princess in the shadow of the Sphinx, and was possessed of such combustible Circe charms that her contract forbade her to ride public conveyances or go out without a veil. Her public ate it all up. She slithered her way through 40 carbon-copy roles in the next five years, upped her salary from $150 to $4,000 a week, retired in 1921 to marry Director Charles Brabin and live the quiet life of a well-fed, well-to-do suburban matron...