Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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In Brussels, midway through a lecture on the battle of Cassino and the Italian campaign, exiled Polish General Wladyslaw Anders was interrupted by Communist hoodlums who threw eggs and tomatoes, then let loose a few stink bombs and a boxful of white mice in the audience. Eventually police came and...
A sharp-eyed reporter for the New Statesman and Nation thought it was time to clear up the mystery of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's "secret" four-day trip to England. Platonist Ben-Gurion was browsing through some rare Greek volumes in an Oxford book shop.
During World War II, the U.S. Armed Forces radio piped overseas such native noises as Lana Turner's sigh, an umpire shouting "Play Ball!" at Ebbets Field, the whimper of a puppy. Last week, from Gibraltar to Korea, British soldiers & sailors were also hearing the sounds of home. A...
Let's Make an Opera (music by Benjamin Britten; book & lyrics by Eric Crozier; produced by Peter Lawrence and the Show-of-the-Month Club), which closed at week's end, was half harrowingly cute, half harmlessly dull. At the start, some children and their elders decide to...
Large nuclear reactors need vast quantities of cooling water, and it must be water of a very special sort. The plutonium plant at Hanford, Wash. was built there because of the Columbia River, but Columbia water did not prove entirely satisfactory. Though clear and cold and plentiful, it contains a...