Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calvert, Head of the Europe and NATO Branch of the Politico-Military Division under the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, said that the military viewpoint in international affairs is of vital importance, but often no one is able to explain it convincingly to the political policy-makers...
...want the children to touch, to hold, to operate, and to care for," says Teacher Velma Branch. A teacher goes behind a screen and asks children to identify the sound of a bouncing ball, an egg beater, a newspaper being crumpled. Pupils smell fruits and flowers, classify objects according to texture, distinguish shapes, care for pets. They even are assigned rudimentary homework: "Take this pear home. Eat it and bring back the seeds tomorrow...
...international atmosphere." Clearly, Moscow was not ready to buy Peking's hard line-at least for the moment. But by the time Chou finished his long goodbye and flew home to Peking, a Sino-Soviet dialogue had been established for the first time in 16 months. The olive branch had been offered to all warring parties in the Communist movement, and the acute embarrassment brought about by Khrushchev's boorish intransigence had been transmuted into a glow of wary hope. How healing this might be for Communist prestige with the "nonaligned" was illustrated by the report that Algeria...
Science's rapid accumulation of data, Asimov said, has created the need for a new branch of science, information retrieval. The new field, he said, should attempt to make the data scientists need available to them simply "by pushing the right button...
Kirloskar-"S.L." to his friends-is a compact (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) man of 61 with bird-bright brown eyes and a penchant for gay-toned bow ties. After graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926, he got his little family-owned motor company to branch out into planters, seeders and harrows, invented a machine that speeded peanut shelling by 600% . Kirloskar has been branching out ever since, often by collaborating with foreign manufacturers. He runs his empire of nine scattered plants and 11,000 workers with a light hand. "I direct by invisible authority," he says...