Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...processional route, greeting every glimpse of the royal couple with cheers, hurrahs and choruses of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. When Meg and Tony emerged from Buckingham Palace after the wedding breakfast, the whole royal family pelted them with confetti and rose petals. In the lead was Queen Elizabeth, who had sat glum and stony-faced through the Abbey ceremony but now flung roses as riotously...
...over to diabetes. This disorder, he has found, occurs in 1.1% of the general population, in .55% of the early returning Yemenites, but in only 055% of the latecomers. And whereas diabetics in general have a high incidence of complications, notably atherosclerosis and changes in the eye (which may lead to blindness), Yemenite diabetics showed none of these. Main reason for their immunity on this score, said Dr. Brunner, is that diabetic Yemenites stay on their low-protein, lowfat, high-carbohydrate diet...
Shielding can be used to protect the spacemen, but Dow estimated that 100 lbs. of lead per sq. ft. will be required to keep Van Allen or flare radiation at a safe level. That figures at no less than 11,000 Ibs.-more than the total weight of the heaviest satellite yet put into orbit, the U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik III-for shielding in a cramped, man-carrying capsule only six feet in diameter. Dow conceded that better shielding materials than lead may be found. But he saw little chance that the light and roomy satellite stations so dear...
Looking for a quotation to lead off a book he wrote almost 30 years ago (The Edge of the Sword, a philosophical discussion of command and warfare), a French army major named Charles de Gaulle found just what he wanted in Hamlet...
...that definition, General de Gaulle may easily be the greatest Frenchman of his century. Yet what irritates him most is to discover that his stirrings lead to argument at all. Because he acts from love of country, he often sounds as if he cannot understand why other Frenchmen-or his allies-should oppose...