Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made elements (plutonium, berkelium, etc.), batteries of blinking lights, clicking radiation counters, and black and white checkers to signify protons and neutrons. Seaborg uses them to demonstrate the manipulation of highly radioactive substance. In one film, for example, he extemporizes while a mechanical arm juts out from a wall, picks up a flashlight and directs a beam into a vat of boiling fluid. Another arm lifts a bottle of deadly radioactive fluid and pours a tiny but lethal amount into a test tube. A third mops the floor. Some of the shows deal with historic events in the young life...
...discount rate (i.e., the fee charged by the Federal Reserve system on loans to member banks) from i^% to 3% over the last 20 months (TIME, Sept. 10). By thus restricting credit, rumbled Patman, the Federal Reserve Board has driven farmers, small businessmen, home and school builders to the wall-all for the sake of high profits to big moneylenders...
...generations Cholon, the rich, raucous city that exists side by side with Saigon, has been a state within a state. The home of half of South Viet Nam's 1,000,000 Chinese, and long administered by five semiautonomous Chinese "communities," Cholon was both the Wall Street and the Broadway of Viet Nam. At night its jampacked streets offered visitors a heady cocktail compounded of neon lights, savory smells and cabaret music...
SHAPE adviser on international affairs. Soon after Eisenhower became President, MacArthur was recalled to Washington, named State Department counselor. On his office wall hang two cherished Christmas presents: Eisenhower oils of Washington and Lincoln...
...September 1949, after his trial, Mindszenty was suffering acutely from "my old disease, my thyroid disturbance." Transferred to Budapest's Conti Prison, he was held in solitary confinement for four years, the cells on each side of him empty to prevent wall-tapping communication. His cell was "small and crumbling. There was a straw mat to sleep on, a table, a stool, a small bucket for one's needs and another for water." While in solitary, "I received no mail, read no newspapers and no books except my breviary and my Bible . . . Each day I said my rosary...