Word: done
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proof, Parisian newsmen contrived a more devious explanation: that Leftist Mitterrand and Rightist Pesquet. equally eager to discredit the regime of Gaullist Premier Michel Debre, could have collaborated in the mutual hope of toppling Debre and with the common intention of doublecrossing each other after the deed was done...
...believed was really behind it all: "The truth is that the American wives dislike us very much. They are race-conscious, and complain they have to stand alongside us for service at PX counters . . . Those who are married to high officers nagged away at their husbands to have something done about...
...instead of helping him. But no more. Last week in Manhattan, at a symposium sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism, doctors and officials from two dozen blue-ribbon U.S. companies, including IBM, RCA and Esso, agreed that the corporation can cure the alcoholic, told how it is being done...
...having gone around the moon, Lunik swung back toward the earth, began to transmit the pictures. A slow system was used when Lunik was still at a great distance from the earth, a faster system when it came nearer and its signals were easier to receive. The transmission was done by a sort of TV camera that scanned the pictures electronically, line by line, and translated their varying shades of brightness into varying radio signals. The number of lines could be changed to give different degrees of definition. The maximum was 1,000 lines a picture, which yields a definition...
...steel strike has done so much damage that the effects will be felt long after the strike itself is just an unpleasant memory...