Word: complicatedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heat-resistant electronics will be most useful at first in guided missiles, where heat is generated both internally and by air friction. In many cases, they will eliminate heavy and complicated cooling apparatus. When nuclear airplanes come into the picture, the new electronics will brave heat and radiation close to...
Ernest Hemingway appears to have left the inedible portions of his celebrated prose style littered all over the green hills of Africa. In his latest novel, Old Africa Hand Stuart Cloete, who last year published a perceptive nonfiction account of his dark and complicated continent (TIME, Oct. 3), has taken...
Expectant Treatment. For those expected to die. In this category are men so badly injured (extensive injuries of the respiratory tract or central nervous system, penetrating wounds of the abdomen, multiple severe injuries, extensive burns) that only complicated and prolonged treatment might save them.
When he first came to power, Nasser's knowledge of how to run a country was close to zero, and he said so. In 1953, when he was negotiating with the British for the evacuation of their Suez base, he suddenly broke off the talks one day, explaining to...
When liberty seemed mainly the preoccupation of a few French philosophers and the dissident American colonials, a millionaire nobleman called Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, gave up his title and pledged his sword to make room for it on the earth. With that pledge and sword, he won a...