Word: arching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vandalism of the Paris Commune, which in 1871 burned down the Tuileries, caused but few tears to be shed. With the Tuileries palace gone, the Louvre acquired one of the world's most breathtaking vistas, extending two miles up the Champs-Elyéees to Napoleon's Arch of Triumph...
When the nose cone hit the atmosphere after its arch through space, its tip got so hot that it glowed like a star. It was, in effect, a man-made meteor that gradually lost speed by air friction. When its speed was low enough (figure secret) to eliminate further heating, a lot of things started happening fast...
...endangered our beloved Vice President and his wife." Replied Nixon: "I don't think that either of us has ever been so moved . . . returning as we do." Minutes later the homecoming caravan rolled away from the airport, along streets lined with 100,000 people, under a triumphant arch of fire-engine ladders, to the White House, where Nixon spent the next hour and a half reporting on his trip to the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
This time the fat man is a baker, and once again he is played by Raimu. He is the perfect Pagnol hero, being the arch-type of the French provincial middle-class, and a fine comedian as well. Without Raimu, The Baker's Wife would be bad beyond any telling...
...faith as deep belief which not only is unjustified by the available evidence, but is irrelevant to all possible evidence or even runs headlong against it--belief which, is, in short, "absurd." The claim to have gotten "beyond" rational thought is a form of what Russell regards as the arch-vice, intellectual dishonesty. He would probably say that it is patently impossible to argue with someone who insists on Tertullian's Credo quia absurdum est. Such a case needs a psychiatrist, not syllogisms...