Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orderly tension. Heeding appeals from Governor John Bell Williams to "make the best of a bad situation," Mississippians refrained from the acts of violence that had marked earlier attempts to desegregate the state's schools. Nor, with the realization that Mississippi had gone beyond the point of no return, was there more than the expected chorus of protest as legal desegregation became a fact. White parents in the tiny (pop. 8,000) Forrest County community of Petal reacted angrily to a plan for busing their children. When a school official tried to explain the program, they borrowed a line...
Chinese telephoned last week to say that Lei Yang wanted to return the call. The following day he arrived at the U.S. embassy in a Chinese Hung Chi (Red Flag) limousine whose taillights are shaped like Chinese lanterns. As they sipped tea, the diplomats agreed to reopen the formal talks next week at the Chinese embassy. Thereafter, the talks will alternate between the U.S. and Chinese embassies...
...Along with radiation, critics of the reactor program are alarmed about the effects of thermal pollution on marine life. The problem is that nuclear plants use cool water from rivers and bays, then return it hot. All steam-generated plants require cooling water-as do many other basic industries-but reactors can use as much as 35% more water because they use heat less efficiently than plants fueled by coal or oil. Heat decreases the dissolved oxygen content in the water, makes existing pollutants more toxic, disturbs the reproduction cycle of fish and spurs the growth of noxious blue-green...
...among 365 who were executed between the reign of Henry VIII and the rule of Cromwell, under the Act of Supremacy of 1534. The act made it high treason to refuse the oath that accepted the King as supreme head of the Church of England, to go abroad and return as an ordained Catholic priest, or even to harbor a priest. Since no Catholic priest could be ordained in England, a steady flow of young Englishmen left the country for The Netherlands. They returned as priests in disguise to visit among known Catholic homes called "Mass houses." where they secretly...
Watson said that when he decided to resign, he turned down several offers to return to his previous occupation as a Wall Street banker...