Word: containment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laurin's remarks in TIME, May 5, * relative to TIME'S recent article on Bishop Fulton Sheen. I fail to comprehend how one man can contain within himself so much bigotry and hatred as does the Rev. Roy Laurin, and he a minister of Christ's gospel . . . I also wonder how much of this hatred and bigotry he has instilled in the minds and hearts of his flock...
...moist heat of East Africa the locusts bred and multiplied. Then, sudden as an explosion, vast swarms rose up to darken the sky. A single swarm may occupy 250 sq. mi. of space, contain perhaps 500 million locusts, and weigh 700 tons. At least 30 swarms headed northward...
...bimonthly magazine Hsueh Hsi, Ai laid down the party line for all & sundry. Only China's academicians escaped his venom. That was because Ai had a soft spot for them: "China's higher intellectuals, while not yet fully wholesome . . . still can be considered to contain progressive and active elements...
Aside from the scientific nature of these stories--which incidentally contain little pseudo-scientific jargon--there is another ingredient which seems to be exclusive to ASF. The scientists who write for it must be a very gloomy lot, for they groan continually about current life, and predict the unhappiest of futures. In Blood's A Rover (the May issue's lead yarn), for instance, the captain of a Process Corps takes us by the hand and shows how awful the Earth's historical development has been, how ridiculously evangelistic we Earthlings really are, and what is in store...
Long-distance softball slugger Irv Grossman drove in seven runs--half his team's total--pasting two homers while doing so. But inability to contain opponents' attacks plagued the Puritans again. Brilliant relief pitching by John Ramser was needed to preserve the victory, clinched by a seven-run Winthrop uprising in the seventh...