Word: containment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This report, on which may hinge the fate of television for next year's football games, will contain the findings of the National Opinion Research Center's survey of the controlled television system which the NCAA put into effect this fall...
...jury to drinks on the house after it acquitted him of drunkenness, even though five cops swore that Barnes had taken one too many before he tried, with a hammer, chisel and ice tongs, to steal the old City Hall's 800-lb. cornerstone, which was rumored to contain a quart of 1884 whisky...
...flight into the world of fantasy may be a disappointment to those who remember him for his more serious work, and even for the fanciful "Ring Around the Moon." For "A Phoenix Too Frequent" does not contain the well-constructed plot and incisive characterization which marked much of Fry's early work. It does, however, have a great deal of situational humor and a masterful contrast of high and low dialogue...
When he was 1,200 ft. over Baragwanath, Comte cut loose his tow. Some ten miles to the south he spotted a towering thunderhead. Rain poured from its base, and lightning played around the high-riding, anvil-headed cloud. Sure that it would contain powerful updrafts, Comte headed for it. As he maneuvered under its base, he switched on his electrically driven gyro-horizon...
...great books' are, of course, the repositories of many funded generalizations. But, in justice to the Deweyite, certain 'great books' contain their own share of palpable nonsense . . . The ideas in the 'great books' most assuredly must be put to the test of historical experience, or of the market place...