Word: bended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Would Akihito, the first heir to the throne ever to marry a commoner, bend to the stifling ritual that is gradually isolating his father, the Emperor? Would he allow his son to be taken from him at the age of three to be raised by chamberlains in a separate palace? Akihito had said no, and his princess had even declared that she wanted her son to attend a kindergarten with "ordinary children." It was enough to make a conscientious imperial chamberlain wince. Protested one last week: "It is untrue that we resist change. Why, this prince was bathed...
What's It All About? In his first public statement in the Southern Rhodesia capital of Salisbury, a busy modern city (pop. 260,000) that boasts of racial "partnership" while practicing a segregation almost as complete as South Africa's, Macmillan did a quick knee bend in the direction of the Africans. Britain, he said, would not remove its "protection" until all the people had a chance to say whether they wanted federation or not. Sir Roy Welensky was visibly disgruntled. But during his entire stay in Southern Rhodesia, Macmillan did not interview a single African leader...
...advantage of the moon-relay system is that it makes possible the use of microwaves in the ultra-high frequency, 400-megacycle band that are normally unaffected by magnetic storms. Such microwaves cannot be used in normal long-range radio transmissions, since they do not bend around the curve of the earth, travel only along line-of-sight paths. When a message (Teletype, code or facsimile) is to be sent to Hawaii, an 84-ft. dish antenna at Annapolis, Md. is pointed at the moon. If the weather is overcast, the signal is aimed at the moon's calculated...
...subject is a nude girl seated on a low rock wall by a dirt road, staring at the point at which the road winds out of sight in a thin forest. She is slim and well formed, but her tense body lacks grace; whatever she waits for at the bend of the road will be painful...