Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breakthrough in the development of solid-fueled missiles. Almost as soon as scientists found solutions to solid-fuel problems, the relatively inexpensive, highly mobile, easily handled solid-fuel missiles opened up whole new prospects of operation. And at the same time they doomed to swift obsolescence the cumbersome, complex, costly, "first-generation" liquid-fuel missiles, with their big, liquid-oxygen plants, their long fueling time before launching and their intricate plumbing...
...President had previously said that he must have a constitutional amendment to settle the complex issue of presidential succession; certainly any "understanding" with Nixon must have no legal status. Official disclosures of the content of the accord, for example, indicate that should Eisen-hower become disabled, Nixon would become "Acting President" until the President had recovered...
Tribute to a People. Good as the new production was, it was the performance that made last week's Butterfly truly memorable. In her first Metropolitan appearance in the role, Italian Soprano Antonietta Stella, 28, made her Cio-Cio-San a wonderful complex of childish fever and womanly fire, effectively underplayed the bathetic frills the role is heir to. Her large, easily ranging voice shimmered and soared ecstatically, brought the house alive with a roar after her famous aria...
...Under a complex NBC contract, Berle is guaranteed an average $60,000 a year for the next 23 years. All he must do in return is make half a dozen more guest appearances...
...town, they were forever afraid that the world was ready to laugh at them. To dull their anxiety they sought relief in drink (though none was technically an alcoholic); 15 used marijuana, and six took to heroin. Said one: "Being a call girl helped me overcome my inferiority complex. I used to feel very unattractive to men, but since so many of them want to pay me ... I guess I can't be all that unattractive." Largely because of their uncertainty about father and mother. 15 of the 20 had homosexual relations. None of the girls had any capacity...