Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Able and Baker entered and left space at a portentous earthly moment. Just a day earlier Statesman John Foster Dulles had been buried on the date set, and broken, by Russia's Nikita Khrushchev as the deadline for the Western powers to desert West Berlin. Now the Big Four foreign ministers were returning to Geneva, where they had been trying to get off the diplomatic ground for three weeks. The trip of Able and Baker had meaning to the Geneva conference. A Russian dog named Laika had been the first living animal to orbit through space, and there...
Disappointing Date. Throughout his schooling, Halleck was an honor student and front runner. At Indiana University he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, was student-union president in his senior year. But he was so busy gathering garlands that he made few campus friends. Recalls a classmate: "Friendship takes time-and Charlie didn't have time." Always, he thought of his future, to the point where a coed returned from her first date with Halleck complaining of that strange lad who "spent all night talking about how he was going to be President." Halleck never got another date with...
Beer at the Table. The children were reacting to a problem centuries older than Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1912), in which he observed: "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him," and as up-to-date as a London councilor's remark: "Every man carries his caste mark in his mouth." But last week, with diction and elocution classes flourishing throughout Britain and the BBC spreading its own slightly precious brand of proper accent into every home, caste-conscious Britain was still confronted by an unexpected phenomenon...
...TARGET DATE AND HOUR PROJECT GREEN THURSDAY MORNING...
Last week Chancellor Kimpton announced his briskest reforms to date: appointment of Dean Simpson and complete re-establishment of major studies within the college. The full-size curriculum is likely to command respect at last for the sagging college of the wealthy (endowment: $186 million) university; the new dean already has it. Trim, clip-toned, British-born Alan Simpson went to Chicago in 1946 as a newly demobbed Royal Artillery major. He is now a U.S. citizen, married to an associate editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists...