Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater freedom of expression within the Soviet Union as he had been an acquiescent promoter of Stalin. In one of the final chapters of his diffuse six-volume memoirs he even backtracked: the voice of Stalin he had once heard became ominous "noises on the stairs"-meaning the approach of the secret police. "If he just read the list of all his victims," he said of the old dictator, "he would not have been able to do anything else...
...more considered approach of the U.S. astronomers carried the day. Until a committee chosen by the T.A.U. can study a complete farside chart and choose a more international selection of honored names, twelve farside "seas," 150 promontories and mountains and some 400 craters will be identified only by code numbers...
...busiest week of the year. By the tens of thousands, Americans were flying in from summer vacations, and foreign tourists were flying away after visits to the U.S. The resulting chaos at Kennedy gave ample warning of what lies ahead as the nation's airports approach what authorities call "complete saturation" in the surge of travelers to take their trips by air. Statistics suggest the future nightmare. Some 114 million people rode the 2,100 U.S. airliners that plied American skies in 1966. By 1977, when the 490-seat jumbo jets will be in full service, the number...
Conducting an experimental program in 25 hospitals in 14 countries, the council delivered its message to 300,000 women. In some hospitals, the approach was soft sell, with tasteful leaflets, individual talks and optional group discussions. In Ankara and Trivandrum, the birth controllers took advantage of the fact that they had a captive audience: over loudspeakers, interspersed between news and music, were frequent plugs for family planning and playlets demonstrating its benefits. Worldwide, one woman out of three accepted birth-control advice and supplies (free or at nominal cost), including pills and intrauterine devices. Among these 101,725 women...
...reading, his fans have left their inhibitions on the mainland and want a come-on-strong virility. They don't even mind his occasional bathroom humor. There is a pidgin Hawaiian expression, "Letta go your blouse," roughly meaning "anything goes." That is Ho's approach-and appeal...