Word: rare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particle accelerator was a completely indispensable tool in our research," Chamberlain noted. Only one particle per 30,000 was an anti-proton, however, and the California scientists had to develop a complicated array of bending magnets, magnetic focusing lenses, and detectors to spot the rare particle...
Young men in Moslem Pakistan have a thin time of it. In many parts of the country, women are still kept in purdah, and before marriage Pakistani boys seldom meet a female who is not a close relative. With rare exceptions there is no teen-age dating, there are no mixed parties, and the sexes are segregated through grade and high school. But at Karachi University, nearly 5,000 of the 16,000 students are girls-emancipated girls who no longer hide beneath the traditional sack-like burka that shrouds devout Moslem women from head...
...reason for the rare unanimity was general awareness that Antarctic territorial claims have become hopelessly muddled: three out of the four active Soviet IGY bases are in Australian-claimed territory, and the peninsula claimed by the British under the name Graham Land is O'Higgins Land to the Chileans, and San Martin Land to the Argentines. More important yet was the fact that for once the U.S. and Russia (neither of which recognizes any Antarctic territorial claims) were in thorough agreement; genially, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov echoed Secretary of State Herter's recommendation that "Antarctica should...
Despite the big money they earn the shows are filmed on a tight budget: around ?40,000 and three days for each half-hour. With rare exceptions, the all-important night scenes are faked on the back lots of Hollywood; to save overtime wages, these are shot in daylight with the cameras stopped down or filtered. Most of the all-important fights are faked too. Some actors, e.g., Craig Stevens, who was once an amateur boxer, like to throw their own fists in the closeups, but directors are leary of such heroics. So far in 51 scraps, Stevens...
...honestly told but unexciting story about ordinary people. They more than compensate for the slight drop in interest during part of the first act, and for the scattered signs of the pseudo-lyricism and pretentiousness that are so annoying in some of Mr. Williams' later plays. It is a rare experience for me to come out of a theatre changed, deeply respectful of the total effort I came to see and of all those who created it. If my gratitude is worth anything to them, I offer it thus publicly and freely...