Word: advent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potted mimosa tree to receive her guests, or that she kept a pride of pet lions in her basement. But it is true that she paraded in elegant furs walking a lion on a leash, did Lenten penance by scrubbing the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent, and attended a concert in Symphony Hall wearing a headband emblazoned: "Oh you Red Sox." It is also true that she ardently supported the Boston Symphony, launched Critic Bernard Berenson on his career, and founded an art museum that contains some of the world's finest paintings. She spent...
...telephone used to be a friend, something you said hello to and took for granted. But since the advent of direct dialing and seven-digit phone numbers plus area code, the square black box, which no longer is necessarily either square or black, has inspired admiration in some, irritation in others. Both the admiration and the irritation make little difference, because increasingly there is no real person to talk to anyway...
...dominates the streets and, through the streets, President Sukarno. Pro-Peking Communists also work hand in hand with Singapore's Barisan Socialist Party, have long since captured Japan's 10 million-member Gensuikyo, its Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (which nonetheless lost considerable support with the advent of Red China as a nuclear power). Though India's 160,000-member Communist Party is split down the middle, the pro-Chinese wing holds the psychological whip hand, having won 40 seats in this year's Kerala state election to only three for the Muscovite wing...
...Gemini 4, the U.S. took a big step toward closing the gap in the man-in-space race, in which the Soviet Union got off to a head start. More important, the flight signaled the advent of the second generation of U.S. spacecraft and spacemen. The two-man Gemini capsule is to the old Mercury capsule what a Thunderbird is to a Model T. Almost all previous U.S. space flights were preplanned to the second, and any deviation meant trouble; in Gemini 4, the astronauts were given considerable flexibility, could and did change their plans and improvise at short notice...
Ironically, the highway has bred an aggression no one expected. With the advent of modern transportation, the northeast's endemic bandit population switched from cattle rustling to highway robbery. The region's 30 holdup gangs now roar down the Friendship Highway in hot rods, pulling abreast of buses and firing shots across their bows, then relieving their passengers of cash and jewelry. Many of the bandits, according to Thai police, learned their holdup techniques by watching U.S. westerns on TV sets supplied to most villages for propaganda purposes...