Word: clinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None of the scientists wants to predict how long the Explorer will cling to space, but Major General John B. Medaris, head of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, thinks it may stay up for as long as ten years...
...trouble with women, President Lynn Townsend White Jr. of California's little (625 girls) Mills College (at Oakland) once wrote, is that they cling to the "biologically fantastic notion that to be different from men is to be inferior to men." And the trouble with women's colleges, he added, is that, in imitating the men's, they treat higher education as" "something like spinach, which can profitably be absorbed without reference to the gender of the absorbent." Since 1943, when he left his job as professor of history at Stanford to take over Mills College, chubby...
Susan Cole's scenery is black and a propos, as are the costumes, which cling to the maids like shrouds...
...Kind of Bum. Quick success, like his ready smile, seems to cling naturally to husky (200 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.), lackadaisical Jim Garner, who, unlike Competitor Sullivan, has a hard time keeping a straight face during his five-days-a-week shooting schedule on the busy back lot of Warner Bros. Confesses Jim: "I can do it better clowning." Any way he does it, Garner gets the support of brisk direction, handsome settings, some elemental but red-blooded lines from writers like Marion Hargrove and Phi Beta Kappa (U.C.L.A., '39) Writer-Producer Roy Huggins, who describes Hero Bret...
...which is apt to view Christianity as a white man's weapon. The nationalist Bataka Party has sponsored an organized reversion to tribal forms of worship. Under Bishop Kiwanuka's leadership, 62,503 converts have joined his flock. "Even the young girls seduced into Moslem homes usually cling to their Catholic faith," he says. "At least they die as Catholics...