Word: briefed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already things had threatened to get out of hand. The Norwegian press snorted at U.S. rhapsodies about the "Cinderella" marriage, testily pointed out that Anne-Marie's brief stint as a U.S. housemaid (one year) was common European practice for well-brought-up girls, who often serve au pair* in a foreign country. Anne-Marie should not even be called a poor girl, protested one paper, because "everybody is poor in comparison with the Rockefellers...
Going on the auction block in London some time next month: an unused Jaguar, two Rolls-Royces, some antique furniture, Persian rugs and other oddments. Former owner: Iraq's late King Feisal, gunned down last year in Iraq's brief but bloody revolution...
...miles a second to a modest one mile a second. Fast neutrons would bounce off or pass through the thorium, but at this speed neutrons are moving slowly enough to be captured by thorium 232 atoms, turning them into unstable thorium 233. When thorium 233 decays, after a brief half life of 23 minutes, it becomes protactinium 233, which in turn decays after a half life of 27 days, becomes uranium 233, a full-fledged nuclear fuel as fissionable as the better known radioactive uranium isotope...
...life last April, when a discharged guardsman shot him in the neck and shoulder. Before he collapsed, the bleeding colonel disarmed his attacker, who was turned over to the Italian police (the Vatican City jail has been vacant for 20 years, is now used for storage). "It was a brief but violent struggle," said Nunlist, and clamped down all the harder...
...dressing in an ugly, hairy-ape costume and dashing about with another WAPEster in hot pursuit, brandishing a rifle. On calmer days, a costume ape may stalk out to the highway to thumb a ride. Even WAPE's checks are decorated with the simian image-along with a brief message from the keepers: "We will welcome your saving this check as a souvenir instead of cashing...