Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carefully examined each one, slice by slice, for traces of residual magnetism and remnants of primitive life. Because sediment has settled continuously on the ocean bottom for millions of years, each core represented both a magnetic and evolutionary calendar; each slice was a thin but significant record of a brief period in the earth's history...
...Otto Kaus declared that even today's "family magazines, which no one would think of hiding from the children, have for years played peekaboo with the female breast." In such a society, reasoned Kaus, the court cannot rationally rule "that a woman who exposes her bust for a brief period, without suggestive movements, before a limited group of adults of both sexes, outrages public decency by any and all definitions of that term...
...days after their arrest, Kimba and the other three, their bodies badly bruised and their wrists painfully bound, were hauled before a military tribunal. As a noisy throng looked on, the tribunal gave each a brief hearing; each denied any intention of killing Mobutu and his colleagues. The court deliberated six minutes before finding them guilty and sentencing them to be hanged -36 hours later-in the public square. Appeals for clemency from the diplomatic corps were turned down...
...life that is nothing but itself," was Montale's singular obsession. His entire poetic corpus is a relentless meditation on the mystery of the self, on the continuing conversation of the self and the Other, on the tragic predicament of the self in time. Even on brief vacations from eschatology in lyric gardens where
Cadets in Naval Sci. 52, the course for prospective Marine officers, answer questions like, "Describe brief the manner in which the Viet Cong approaches the problem of winning the support ...of the South Vietnam ese villager," or "What does (Vo Nguyen) Giap consider the really decisive factor for victory in any revolutionary...