Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...participate. Their reason in effect was: if we don't participate, it means virtual dissolution of the party. But the Russians probably would continue the party artificially as a stage decoration with weak leaders who would bow to the Russians. On the other hand, our participation may attract the rest of Germany's and the world's attention to the situation in the Russian zone. Germans voting in the zonal elections actually won't be electing councilmen as much as they will be registering their decision on overall Weltanschauung. . . . If they vote SED, they approve...
Phony Facade. The new Brazilian enthusiasm is industrialization. But the $110 million Volta Redonda steel plant, five years abuilding, designed to make Brazil self-sufficient in steel, has yet to be inaugurated. The $13 million Quitandinha Hotel, which was to attract all the world's wealthy tourists, is virtually empty. The National Motor Factory-one of the world's most modern-has produced by itself one airplane engine in three years of operation. There is a huge movie studio outside São Paulo, brand-new and abandoned...
...Catholic Church best use radio as a tool in proselyting? For one, by offering good music to attract the listener and to create a mood receptive to the subsequent religious message. This is the conclusion drawn by Scripter William C. Smith from audience reaction to his two Catholic network shows, The Catholic Hour and The Hour of Faith. His conclusion and what lies behind it are set down in The Priest, a monthly published for the clergy by straitlaced, conversion-minded Bishop John Francis Noll of Fort Wayne, Ind. Some of Smith's points...
Enter the Head Man. There was a stir in the back of the hall and Molotov bustled in with his brisk, bobbing swagger. His face was pink with anxiety and his tie (for once) was askew. He snapped his finger to attract the chair's attention, and Bidault wearily said: "The Soviet delegation has an observation to make." A reporter muttered: "Hold your hats, boys, here we go again...
...bodies attract one another with a force (gravitation) which is proportional to the product of their masses divided by the square of the distance between them...