Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope to have trained 750 more teachers, the revolution in physics teaching will be accepted matter-of-factly by some 50,000 high school students. But the chain-reaction's shock wave will continue spreading. Chief shock absorbers: the nation's colleges, many of which teach a brand of physics as outmoded as the one now being replaced in the high schools...
...Just Outgrew Her." Powell's secret of success lies in his gaudy person and personality, which seem to mesmerize Harlem's 75.000 eligible voters. Tall and trim (6 ft. 2 in., 193 Ibs.), the descendant of slaves (at ten. he says, he traced with horror the brand on his grandfather's back), he has talked his way to wealth and influence, become the dashing symbol of all that his constituents would like to be. An ordained minister, he succeeded his father in the pulpit of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church (9,943 congregants). Promptly turning...
...peddle Moscow's brand of sweet reasonableness, however, the Kremlin bosses sent glum, wooden-faced Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, whom a Western diplomat last week happily characterized as "the least attractive, least persuasive diplomat they have." In his gravelly tones Gromyko ran through a predictable catalogue of invective-"oil, oil and oil again; that was the thing which was tempting the monopolies of the U.S. and the United Kingdom"-and introduced a resolution demanding that the U.S. and Britain withdraw their troops from Lebanon and Jordan "without delay." But Gromyko closed on what from him-or any other Russian...
...mile run, Thomas let Elliott set the pace, then sped past him at the 1½-mile mark to win going away in 8:32 for a new world's record. Only a month before, the unheralded Thomas had set another world's record over the brand-new Santry track when he ran three miles in 13:10.8. Said he happily: "Santry must be the fastest track in the world...
...Exit deals in despair--the existentialist brand of despair which employs an infanticide, a lesbian, and a coward as its protagonists; a despair which isn't any more tragic than it is didactic, and yet is great art. The dilemma of the common death sentence, hackneyed at the hands of philosophy professors, is moving as the instrument of good acting and directing...