Word: complicatedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seductive but Fragile. In sum, Mendès' plan was a complicated and subtle maneuver, offering to all parties concerned (including the U.S.) half a loaf as preferable to no bread. He was in fact keeping his promise to the U.S. to bring the matter to a vote before...
You're Another. Controversy raged as usual throughout the week, with the accepted number of politicians and experts appearing on forums and giving in most cases simple answers to complicated problems. Some of the week's best debates took place off the air. CBS President Frank Stanton protested...
Actually, no military discussion with the U.S. has taken place. Diplomatically it would be out of the question until the three-year-old oil dispute between Britain and Iran is settled. But that is due any day now. British and Iranian negotiators have worked out a complicated formula by which...
Dr. Beerstecher believes that oil-eating bacteria will eventually prove more useful than harmful to man's operations. He foresees a great industry built on the fermentation of hydrocarbons by specially trained bacteria. Some of them will turn petroleum or natural gas into valuable organic compounds too complicated to...
The weighing is done in a complicated apparatus whose essential part is a tiny glass tube closed at one end and trapping a bubble of air. When this "Cartesian diver" is properly weighted, it floats midway in a column of water, and slight changes in water pressure can make it...