Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failed to take into account that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong-there is always the turtle...
...Communist Parties. While the West grappled with problems created by Soviet diplomacy, the process of destroying the legend of Joseph Stalin was causing obvious and increasing confusion in Russia and the satellite states. If the Soviet Union had not yet found it necessary to make policy concessions on this account, it was because the West had not yet discovered how to exploit a state of disorder, which may even reflect a critical weakness...
...Irked by the advance alibi making of some of the critics who fear that Russia's state-subsidized athletes may whip the U.S.'s expense account amateurs at the Olympics in Australia next November, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage, world's No. 1 defender of pure amateurism, sounded off. "Champions are not made by subsidies or training camps but by diligence and intelligence ... It is not the strength of other people that we in the U.S. need fear. It is our national complacency ... If Russian success in the Olympic games arouses us ... it will serve...
Usually, on these twenty-first century trips to distant planets, there is one guy who can account for everything up to a certain point. Then when even he becomes amazed the picture ends. "I don't believe it," he mutters, "it must be some strange force, probably..."On the Forbidden Planet, this character is Walter Pidgeon (Dr. Morbius), but the reason he, too, succumbs to fantasy is an understandable one: he simply cannot believe any Freudian theory...
...rectifying an error in the pre-meet account, there is a well-organized and active Friends of Harvard Track, which had offered to pay the team's entire expenses for this trip. However, the team decided that if each team member were to pay half his own expenses, this would eliminate those who aspired to a free southern vacation...