Word: better
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charging into an operating steel factory, the Chairman missed not a thing, questioned one worker about his wages ($85-$90 a week), hefted tools, examined huge machines, freely offered his comments. When a guide showed him a machine and said, "I'm sure that you have better ones in your country," the New Nikita replied without a trace of rancor: "Don't be so sure. We have better ones; we have the same kind-we even have worse. I don't say that all you have is bad and all we have is good. We can learn...
...their discussion of U.S.-Soviet problems, Stevenson thought he detected a softening of the Russian position. "Maybe it's not so much a matter of 'give,' " he said, "as of education." Khrushchev himself "has changed a little since I saw him last summer. I feel better about him now." Such informed talk could not help enhancing Stevenson's stature as an authority on foreign relations-a reputation every candidate in the 1960 race eagerly seeks...
...long-40 ft. more than the 6-52-has six General Electric J-93 engines (better than 150,000 Ibs. thrust) in its peacocklike tail; they can be simultaneously hot-started for takeoff in less than five minutes. The plane will cruise above 70,000 ft. at 1,700 knots, three times the speed of sound. Its range, without refueling, is more than 6,000 miles; it could carry 80 passengers or a load of Honest John missiles from Maine to Cairo in less than three hours. Its four-man crew sits in a "shirtsleeve environment," wears no helmets, chutes...
...open-air market near Manchester last week, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, smiling in the hustings, took his stand alongside a gypsy fortuneteller's trailer, confidently told an audience of 300 tweedy housewives and white-aproned fruit vendors: "This country is better off today-better fed, better clothed, better housed-better off in every way than ever before in history." Before another knot of housewives in a shopping center north of London, Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, demanded, "What's being done about spreading that prosperity among all of us?", went on to tout...
...school systems have arranged with Harvard a joint project called the "School and University Program for Research and Development." The main objectives of this program, better known as "SUPRAD," are to improve the quality of education, to promote greater efficiency in the use of time and space in the schools, and to find a means of attracting and holding highlyqualified persons in both teaching and administrative positions...