Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...loan of $5,000,000 to the Bolivian government tin corporation. In return, Paz promised to let through a law that would permit Patiño to divorce his first wife, Princess Maria Cristina de Borbón (a niece of Spain's last monarch, Alfonso XIII), and clear up any bigamous misgivings over the status of Patiño's second wife, Beatriz María Julia de Rivera Degeon...
...cause seemed clear: radon, a dense gas that emanates from uranium, is highly radioactive and breaks down into products that are radioactive too. If there are more than 300 micromicrocuries of radioactive material per liter of air in a mine, the mine is officially rated unsafe. Investigators found air in 50% of the uranium mines in Colorado and Arizona contaminated by four to five times the safe level of radiation. In one mine, they counted 47,000 micromicrocuries per liter...
Jokes & Jazz. The really cozy just-good-dancing places-like Larue's or Le Coq Rouge, where the beat once was clear, strong and pleasant-have all but disappeared. Also gone, for the most part, is the local, rooted talent. Most entertainers nowadays travel a national circuit whose hub is Las Vegas and whose periphery is TV. The jokes and the songs are the same in New York as they are in Chicago or on the Jack Paar show...
...Clear away all evil influence...
...point is research, and where Frank Yerby or Taylor Caldwell might liven the soggy chapter by unhooking the heroine's bodice, Morphy's chronicler merely recreates a chess game. While it is open to question how much the author knows about chess, the royal game, it is clear that she is a master of Authors, the game of royalties...