Word: betters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interests are not hurt in the building of such blocs. In the Soviet Union, we are opposed to such blocs." Weighing their economic livelihood against their political existence in the way that they must do almost every day of their lives, Finns said just as warily that they had better wait and see about joining their Outer Seven friends...
...even in today's more consumer-conscious Russia, from all indications, God is doing somewhat better than just holding...
Concerted Effort. But Chauncey is just as concerned as anyone about composition. He calls for "a tremendous concerted effort" to get U.S. students writing more often and better. The new C.E.E.B. essay question is not in itself a panacea. It will take an hour, cover three pages and not be scored. It will go to three colleges, of the student's choice, which can do what they will with it. But it may at last replace the usual pat "biography" required by colleges, and students will get no help from papa. More important, it may help U.S. schools...
...least, Billy Smith now has a leg that is better than any store model. At best, the operation portends a technique that may save many a limb in the future...
...months. He still has no feeling or movement in the limb. Not for another few months will the surgeons undertake thg. tricky task of reopening the leg to sew together the finger-thick sheath of the sciatic (spinal) nerve. They are going on surgeons' experience that nerves mend better when they are connected several months after an accident, figure that Smith will start walking again-although with a severe limp-within a year...