Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total accord with the Soviet press denouncement of Khrushchev as "hairbrained," Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government, surmised that the Communist Central Committee acted to block another "mad improvisation" which Khrushchev was planning for the near future. Otherwise, Ulam said, the Soviets would have held their tempers a few more years until Khrushchev was forced by age to step down...
...suspect that, as the London Times put it: "At the heart of much Labor thinking there is still the idea of an egalitarian society. There has been some move away from the old rigidity when ?2,000 a year was envisaged as a maximum for anyone. But the old Adam is not dead...
Died. Harry Hart ("Pat") Frank, 57, first of the post-Hiroshima doomsday authors, whose 1946 Mr. Adam, describing the plight of the only male on earth to survive sterilization after an accidental nuclear blast (the army has to shield him from hordes of would-be mothers), sold 2,000,000 copies, was soon followed by other atomic potboilers (Alas, Babylon, How to Survive the H-Bomb and Why); of acute inflammation of the pancreas; in Jacksonville...
...Adam Polio is camping out for the summer in a deserted house at the top of a hill "like one of those sick animals that make a canny retreat into some refuge and watch stealthily for danger." He does almost nothing at all, and does it so well that his perceptions suffer strange and vivid changes as in the first symptoms of paranoia or LSD poisoning...
...Charles River, which never smells very well anyway, has a particularly bad odor this fall because of the drought, and will probably stay that way until the next big rain, according to Adam E. Sulesky, Director of the Sewerage Division of the Metropolitan District Commission...