Word: contention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throne, flatly refused to attend the wedding. Leopold's unpopular morganatic wife, the handsome Princess Liliane, having been shunted from a lead car to a back car and then to a lead car again, seemed about to suffer from "diplomatic illness" on the big day, but was finally content with limousine No. 4 and ex-King Umberto of Italy as her companion...
...Neither the French dialogue nor the English subtitles had recourse to the four-letter words that prompted Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield to ban the book itself from the U.S. mails (TIME, June 22). But to the Supreme Court, the quality of the movie was less important than the content of the New York code that condemned...
...indeed from the realism of the Moulin Rouge is its rather Redonesque treatment of lighting, color and brush-work. Its monumental figures (note the left foreground personage or Messaline herself) and themes are straight out of the Golden Age, giving Lautrec a new dignity as a creator of significant content which I, for one, would never have thought possible...
Another risky experiment with the oceans may have already been tried inadvertently. The temperature of the earth's surface depends to a considerable extent on the atmosphere's small content of carbon dioxide (about .03%), which permits short-wave sunlight to pass but impedes the escape of longer heat waves into space -the so-called '"greenhouse" effect. Since 1860 modern man's furnaces and auto exhausts have spewed out 360 billion tons of carbon dioxide. Warns Revelle: "By 2005 we will have added to the atmosphere some 1,700 billion tons of carbon dioxide-about...
...Emphasis. Most of the propaganda is not so obvious; the Russians are content to let their products make their case. There are elaborate table models of heavy Russian industrial units: an integrated steel plant sprawls over a 450-sq.-ft. area: there are models of a plastics and synthetic-rubber complex and an offshore drilling platform that stands on hundreds of stilts in the Caspian Sea. In an area called "Atoms for Peace," the Russians show a 15-ft. model of the icebreaker Lenin...