Word: containment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maxwell knew nothing whatever about the basking shark. He fired more than 300 light machine-gun bullets into its hide-without apparent effect. Intrigued by such a doughty creature, Maxwell began to bone up on it. He found that though the basking shark's liver is known to contain hundreds of pounds of valuable oil, no one had much else to say about the great fish. Here, in short, was a veteran's dream, "an unexplored field, an amazing blank upon the . . . map of the world's natural history...
...course the West has chosen, Kurt Schumacher is the Man in the Way. For four years the West has labored to build a wall to contain Communism. The German peace contract would complete that wall in Europe, the European Army give the West means to defend it. Schumacher, with his obstructionist "Yes, but" hopes to defeat both plans. Why? "We are neither Russians nor Americans nor Britons nor Frenchmen," he says. "We are Germans. We in Germany promote neither Russian nor American nor British nor French policies. We promote German policies...
Normally, he explains, the atmosphere grows cooler as altitude increases, but under some conditions it may contain layers of warm air with cold air below them. These are called "inversions." They occur in all climates but are commonest in deserts, where both the ground and the air get very hot in daytime. As soon as the sun sets, the ground cools off, radiating its warmth into the sky. The air for a few feet up grows cool by contact with the cool earth, but the air a little higher stays warm...
...thought exhausted. Shell has proved up new reserves by drilling its old Ventura wells deeper. Oilmen are now drilling through the bottom of old wells in South Texas, looking for deeper pay sands. Use of gravity-meters and perfected seismograph techniques now enable prospectors to pinpoint formations which could contain oil. But to find out whether oil is there, no substitute has been found for the old-fashioned gamble of sinking a drill. Thanks to the tenacity of such gamblers as Jacobsen, Hunt and countless independent wildcatters, the industry is now finding it almost everywhere...
This year's edition will contain documentation of some 50 violations of Academic Freedom in American universities over the past year...