Word: fells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clarkson's [a theatrical wigmaker] to hire a crown of thorns-that's Kingsley Martin." Martin registered as a conscientious objector in 1916. After his return from World War I duties as a hospital orderly in France, he studied at Cambridge, fell in with the prevailing intellectual fashion of Marxism and, after a stint on the Manchester Guardian, became editor of the New Statesman...
...they moved up the barren face of the ridge. Everywhere along the assault line, men dropped. To continue looked impossible. But, all glory forever to the bravest men I ever saw, the line did not break. The casualties were unthinkable, but the assault force never turned back. It moved, fell down, got up and moved again...
...Opposition. Many authorities did not agree with him. Langmuir's theories have been attacked by the U.S. Weather Bureau, by civilian and military meteorologists. In 1948 the Weather Bureau tried its own cloud-seeding experiments, dumping dry ice and silver iodide into clouds in Ohio. No significant rain fell from them. Langmuir's explanation is that the clouds were the wrong kind in the first place, and that they were greatly overseeded...
...devastating around the detonation point, would be limited to a smaller area than in the case of an air burst. A bomb exploded under water would also lose some of its blast effect, but would throw up an immense column of radioactive water, to contaminate everything on which it fell...
...over 3,000-ft. high, in 100° heat, the marines found themselves suffering from thirst and dropping from heat exhaustion. Some marines were sent to relieve an infantry company which was cut off and being supplied with ammunition and water by air drop. Some of the dropped material fell too far away to recover; some of the water containers burst when they hit the ground...