Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appropriate that the event was watched by ordinary citizens in Prague as well as Paris, Bucharest as well as Boston, Warsaw as well as Wapakoneta, Ohio. In practically every other corner of the earth, newspapers broke out what pressmen refer to as their "Second Coming" type to hail the lunar landing. Poets hymned the occasion. Wrote Archibald MacLeish...
...astronauts will also leave behind a laser reflector pointed toward the earth. The reflector actually consists of an array of 100 quartz corner reflectors, so called because they are shaped like the corner of a cube or a room. Each reflector has a valuable characteristic: it will reflect a beam of light directly back to the source. Thus light aimed at the lunar reflector from a laser located in Los Angeles, for instance, will bounce directly back to Los Angeles...
Return Visits. With Armageddon so near, the Witnesses waste no time on the social-betterment projects that so concern other churches, instead concentrate on dogged street-corner and door-to-door evangelism. Last year, for example, Witness ministers spent 208,666,762 hours preaching, made 89,903,578 return visits to those interested enough to buy books or magazines, but recorded only 82,842 baptisms-over 1,000 return visits for each convert...
...regulatory agencies. The House bill was designed to thwart the efforts of the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission, both of which wanted to outlaw all cigarette ads on TV and radio. But last week the tobacco men encountered new trouble from a usually friendly corner: the broadcast industry itself...
...what Americans do but what they may see, hear and read. In those respects, the U.S. is now by far the freest country in the Western world. Moreover, it happened in a few short years. Until 1933, James Joyce's Ulysses was not purchasable in the U.S.; today, the corner drugstore sells Fanny Hill along with Fannie Farmer. In 1959, the Ballets Af-ricains were not allowed to perform in Manhattan until the female dancers donned bras. When they returned in 1968, no one even raised the issue...