Word: vinca
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...wanted a congenial space where people might gather, which is why Balbir Singh Sodhi was outside his Chevron station in Mesa, Ariz., two Saturdays ago, surveying the vinca and sage he had just planted. Says Guru Roop Kaur Khalsa, one of Sodhi's ministers: "Even though it was just a gas station, he saw it as a center of the community. He looked for innocence and sweetness and tried to capture it." Then, police allege, a man named Frank Silva Roque drove by in a black Chevy pickup and pumped three bullets into Sodhi, killing him almost instantly, mocking innocence...
...around the antibody reaction-at least for the time being-was reported by France's Dr. Henri Jammet to the United Nations in Manhattan. His subjects were six atomic scientists (five men and a woman) who had been exposed to normally fatal radiation in a reactor accident at Vinca, Yugoslavia's equivalent of Oak Ridge. The patients were flown to Paris, lodged in the Hopital Curie. The mildest case, estimated to have absorbed 400 r., got better with conventional treatment-blood transfusions, special diet, rigorous protection against infection. The other five, nauseated and vomiting, soon showed a dangerous...
Communist Dictator Tito, who cannot always be assured these days of being addressed as Comrade in Moscow, last week motored to Vinca, south of Belgrade, to open the Communist world's first atomic reactor outside Russia. The donor: the Soviet Union. Tito was doing his best to show that, allowed to travel his separate road, his goal is still the same as Moscow...
Dark-eyed Phil and blonde Vinca have been seaside pals on the Brittany coast through all their childhood summers. This summer some nameless tension clouds their carefree camaraderie. On their shrimping and crab-hunting forays, Phil turns broody, Vinca coquettishly skittish. Both erupt in inane little squabbles, shy away from the budding hints of their physical and psychological otherness. By the time they are ready to let the troubling word "love" cross their lips, they decide with childlike gravity that love is for grownups and that they are star-crossed by their years...
...parks her car on the sea road and asks Phil for directions, then asks him to come over and see her some time at her neighboring villa. Phil does, and night after furtive night the two make hi-infidelity music together. Inwardly tormented. Phil confesses his faithlessness to Vinca, begging her with newborn masculine vanity not to commit suicide for love of him "either now or later." No death wisher, Vinca responds in a way that confirms Colette's renown as an astute psychologist of women in love...