Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portuguese papers contain daily reports of the wars in Africa," another of the youths said. "They report that the enemy is always being pushed back. The Africans are called 'bandits' and 'terrorists.' The papers report the number of bandit cows and barns that are burned...
...resumption of full-scale warfare (see THE WORLD) poses new hazards for the President's reelection. Having spent the last several years assuring the public that his government would Vietnamize the war and withdraw, Nixon felt obliged to renew the air war against the North Vietnamese to contain their attack. Though the initial stage of the Communist thrust was a tactical success, so far the South Vietnamese have held fairly firm. If they continue to do so, Vietnamization will be proved and Nixon's policy vindicated-to his benefit in November...
...mathematician). The region is farther south of the lunar equator and at a higher elevation than any earlier landing site (about 8,000 ft. above Apollo 11 's Tranquility Base, 150 miles to the northeast). Far more significant is the geological diversity of the landing area. It may contain three basically different types of material: 1) original crustal rock dating back to the moon's birth some 4.6 billion years ago; 2) a layer that was melted and then hardened after the great asteroid impacts that created such large features as the Sea of Rains nearly a billion...
...visual paradox. A great many of Escher's prints were about teasingly blocked situations. They are scientific demonstrations of how to visualize the impossible. What they propose is a kind of n-dimensional reality in which the laws of perception are temporarily repealed. The most innocent images contain excruciating traps...
...does not contain the best political music of the rock and roll era. Phil Ochs and John Lennon have both produced political material of more musical sophistication, if of less comprehensive vision, than anything on Power to the Working Class. But, along with the recent album of the New Haven Women's Liberation Band, the PLP-LP is perhaps the only explicitly political album of recent years. After a week of listening, its tunes wash around inside your head just like anything off the AM airwaves, and it is a relief to find yourself singing "Workers-Get Ready" instead...