Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even while those talks were under way, both Russia and the U.S. announced that they were voluntarily suspending atomic tests. The U.S. lived up to the moratorium in word and deed. But Russia used the interim to make vast preparations for the series of Soviet atomic tests in the atmosphere that began last September. Studies of those tests have made it critically clear that the U.S. must itself resume atmospheric testing if it is to regain the huge lead it once held over the Soviet Union in nuclear weaponry. This week the National Security Council is scheduled to suggest...
...Gaulle to the gallows!" and hammer out on dishpans the deafening rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-caise!" Salan's nod is sufficient to explode plastic bombs* under the bed of a Gaullist security chief in Oran or on the doorstep of a police inspector in Algiers. After each deed, Salan's men boast: "The S.A.O. strikes when it wants, how it wants, where it wants...
...Outlawed, banned, censured, proscribed and prohibited; where to work, talk or campaign for the realization in fact and deed of the brotherhood of man is hazardous, punished with banishment or confinement without trial or imprisonment; where effective democratic channels to peaceful settlement of the race problem have never existed these 300 years, and where white minority power rests on the most heavily armed and equipped military machine in Africa...
...they trooped glumly into the wood-paneled splendor of their boardroom one morning last week, 26 governors of the American Stock Exchange steeled themselves for an unpleasant task. An hour later the deed was done. Out of his $75,000-a-year job as president of Amex went genial, silver-haired Edward Theodore McCormick, 50. Out along with McCormick went his right-hand man and chief adviser, Exchange General Counsel Michael E. Mooney...
...Dutch growers). But, says Stanley, "if you have the tulip-streak virus and you happen to be a tulip, you're sick.'' This lack of evident purpose in viruses leaves teleological philosophers at a loss. Yet viruses must have influenced evolution through natural selection. In deed, the close resemblance between the virus' core of nucleic acid and the gene, or "unit of heredity;" suggests that virus particles are lost genes in search of evolution...