Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sounding the Trumpet. Three years ago, that "needed and wanted feeling" was painfully absent. Prevailing U.S. military doctrine relied mainly upon the threat of nuclear retaliation to deter not only big wars but also little wars. Lacking strategic nuclear punch, the Army was assigned only a relatively minor role in U.S. defense planning. After Korea the Army gradually dwindled to 14 understrength divisions. Renowned Army Generals Matthew Ridgway, James Gavin and Maxwell D. Taylor resigned in protest against the down-rating of the Army. In his clamor-making book The Uncertain Trumpet, Taylor attacked what he considered excessive reliance...
Stalin's Ghost. On hand for talks with Khrushchev in East Berlin were the satellite chiefs of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. Absent, at least from among early arrivals: Rumanian Red Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who is not only feuding with Moscow over economic planning but is warm toward Peking, allowed its manifesto to appear in the Rumanian press. What confronted the small-scale Red summit meeting was the picture of the Sino-Soviet rift tearing into the Communist fabric all over the world...
...extra choruses of Cole Porter's You're the Top, offers the palm to such persons and things as the philosophy of Plato, the Ferrari automobile, Tolstoy, the Place Vendôme in Paris, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, the skyscraper, the model T Ford, and Gary Cooper. Noticeably absent was Mrs. Guinness herself-who is about as elegant as they come...
...great films are represented-that is, all her 20th Century-Fox films: The Seven Year Itch, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bus Stop and so on. Milestones like The Misfits and Some Like It Hot, both United Artists pictures, are unexplainedly absent. With exaggerated curls and lumpish contours, she starts out in a four-girl chorus in A Ticket to Tomahawk. George Sanders in All About Eve tells her that he can see her "career rising in the east like the sun." Incongruously, she sits on a couch beside Jack Paar in Love Nest...
...economy has thus exploded some classical economic theories. The competitive efficiency of the U.S. corporation in 1963 defies the logic of Adam Smith, the absent-minded professor who believed that hired managers would become negligent and sloppy and be overwhelmed by men in business for themselves. The expansion of U.S. markets through a steady population growth belies the gloomy forebodings of Parson Malthus, and modern capitalism's increasing ability to adapt itself readily to change has proved that Karl Marx was a better journalist than prophet. Today's U.S. economy would surprise even those who helped to shape...