Word: connection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over each wheel is a springlike rubber cylinder filled with a "cocktail" of water and antifreeze. Thin tubes connect the front and rear cylinders. When a front wheel hits a bump, the shock compresses the front cylinder, which squeezes the fluid to the rear, expanding the rear cylinder...
Costing $1 million, the David Hoffman memorial laboratory will rise on Oxford St. and connect with the geological wing of the University museum, with houses classrooms, the geology library, and one of the most extensive collections of rocks and minerals in the world...
Looking at the headlines last week, a taxpayer could see plenty of cause for his high tax bite-and maybe, more than usual, tended to connect the two. The headlines out of Cuba, Brazil and Argentina might make him wonder whether the Alliance for Progress was worth it-or more necessary than ever. Guerrilla warfare in South Viet Nam and an easing of crisis in Berlin were the kinds of ups and downs of Communist harassment he had learned to live with. The lull in Berlin could remind him that there would be no such breathing space without...
...from specific firms or agencies, before they will feel easy about appropriating funds. On the whole, they have remained singularly unmoved by Administration statements that meaningful political legislation often depends on economic stability, that one cannot commit funds absolutely before one has them, and that it is silly to connect every political event in Latin America with the success of the Alliance. The trouble is that expropriation of the I.T. & T. in a Brazilian province, or the fact that Cuba has instituted a stiff rationing program, can seriously affect the Alliance, if American opinion allows them...
...novels. There is less creation, less imagining in it than you would expect from Forster, and more careful, studied understanding of what a people ruled by aliens is really like. If the message of Howard's End was that private relationships are all, that men must only learn to connect, the message of A Passage to India is that an unjust social order can be a stronger barrier to understanding than even sex; that even lover between friends will drown in a sea of racial suspicion and hatred...