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Word: accession (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lack of oxygen." The three seamen, names unknown, had been trapped in a storeroom in the forward section of the ship, starboard side. With all power destroyed, they had no way to communicate with the world outside, to let anyone know they were still alive. They had access to fresh water and emergency rations, and they kept alive while the oxygen lasted. They had a calendar, and as each long day passed, bringing no help or hope of help, the men crossed it off with an X. The days lengthened into a week, then into two weeks, then two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Three Sailors at Pearl | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

Only 35 miles from Manila, the Philippine barrio (village) of Santo Nino is a town out of the Middle Ages-without plumbing, electricity or medicine. One cause of Santo Nino's squalor is its isolation; for centuries its only access to the outside world has been a winding trail over which common folk move on foot, the more prosperous on donkey back. Last week, sweating under the tropical sun, 200 half-naked men and boys from Santo Nino were hacking out a broad, five-mile highway to take out the village's production of timber, copra and rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Road to the 20th Century | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...suburb of Highland Park will go up a Black Sheep Club where the pretty waitresses will be long of leg and short of clothes, the drinks expensive ($1.50 a shot), and the access limited to gentlemen keyholders and their guests. The building will be the newest addition to the fast-growing number of key clubs whose keys have become a new status symbol for those who do their playing on expense accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Cash Under the Gaslight | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...Trinity is a topflight Roman Catholic girls' school that emphasizes science and languages, including Russian and Chinese. New York City's Wagner College has a double feature: a hilltop rural campus on Staten Island with a sweeping view of passing ocean liners and easy access (by a 5? ferry ride past the Statue of Liberty) to the cultural riches of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Little Known | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

This was no work for amateurs or bunglers. To gain access to the heavily shielded core vessel, high-density concrete slabs first had to be lifted by remotely controlled cranes, exposing the underground room that houses the reactor and its maze of pipes and pumps. The cell was then flooded with 20 ft. of water to protect the technicians from radiation while they lowered specially designed long-handled tools into a flanged opening, 2⅛ in. in diameter, at the top of the vessel. Then, cutting torches and reamers, operated by delicate levers, rounded out the irregular-shaped holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trick with Mirrors | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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