Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scrupulousness in performance, but she is candid in other ways. She knows that her technique is famous. "From the waist down, I'm terrific," she observes. "My legs just know what to do. But my allegro dancing wasn't enough. I had a kind of breakthrough a year ago. But my arms can still be lifeless. My head is not always right." She has been teaching her role in Emeralds to Ghislaine Thesmar, a French ballerina who is as elegant in a Gallic way as Ashley is in her very American style. "Ghislaine's arms are romantic...
...long, and that restrictions should be relaxed to allow marijuana to be prescribed when doctors feel that the symptoms call for it. Some day marijuana may reduce the suffering of many patients and even save the lives of others. This will not require a new medical breakthrough, but only a modest effort to overcome the vestiges of paranoia from another...
...which has had no astronauts in space since 1975, will be able to put together its own sausages when the space shuttle that is now being tested begins regular flights in the 1980s. But for the Soviets the feat is something of a breakthrough. While the U.S. showed it could dock spacecraft as long ago as the pre-moon shot Gemini 8 flight in 1966, the delicate skills required to bring together two space ships, both of which are traveling at speeds of 29.000 k.p.h. (18,000 m.p.h.), have often eluded the Soviets. (One explanation: they insist on controlling...
...would exist forever." With his audience hushed, Carter continued: "But it did not stand forever. It crumbled and fell. And though the rubble has not yet been completely removed, it no longer separates us from one another, blighting the lives of those on both sides of it." That breakthrough came, Carter said, largely because Martin Luther King Jr., "a spiritual son of Mahatma Gandhi," had taken "Gandhi's concepts of nonviolence and truth-force-and put them to work in the American South...
...leader of one of the most famous-and successful-retreats in military history; in Los Altos, Calif. Trapped by eight divisions of Chinese Communists in North Korea in the fall of 1950, Smith led the 20,000-man 1st Marine Division on a bloody 13-day, 70-mile breakthrough to the sea and rescue. "Retreat, hell!" said Smith. "We're just advancing in a different direction." A softspoken, bookish Christian Scientist sometimes called "the Professor," Smith was much decorated for his amphibious landings at Inchon and Seoul and during World...