Word: depending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disaster. "The impact of failure," says Schlesinger, "shook up the national security machinery," and Sorensen adds that it brought about "basic changes in personnel, policy and procedures." But Sorensen also quotes Kennedy as lamenting long after the event: "All my life I've known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead...
...from 40 to 25 births per 1,000 population per year. Many Indian leaders agree that the nation must do something of the kind or live on the brink of chronic famine. Despite a 10% gain in this year's grain crop, the country cannot feed itself, must depend on 600,000 tons of U.S. wheat a month to avert a recurrence of last year's food riots. Mindful of this, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, who, as the father of six, jokes that he is no expert on the subject, last week called family planning "a matter...
...Kyunojo Ozawa, one of Japan's ace aircraft designers, who is dean of science at Meijo University. All over today's industrial world, entrepreneurs, scientists and bureaucrats are busy developing imaginative ways to move men and goods both faster and cheaper. A lot of the innovations still depend on wheels, but some ride, glide or whoosh lightly over the surface on cushions of air. Certainly many an American contemplating auto traffic in Los Angeles or other big modern cities has come to the instinctive conclusion that the wheel must...
...modern plays depend on banter between the on sustain the interest -- and Pinter is writing such dialogue. a play depends solely burlesque interchanges, some boring -- and even like Waiting for to drag in the second the amusement of this to wane. All of however, contain element of suspense, sheer terror which attention even when actual action is at a standstill...
...Both the exhibitors and producers have also benefited from major hits whose yields are ten times as large as a decade ago-for example, an estimated $30 million at the box office for Goldfinger, $50 to $60 million for My Fair Lady. Besides, most of the big chains now depend on other fields for most of their income: Loew's has become essentially a hotel business, Stanley Warner concentrates on girdles (Playtex) and AB-Paramount is heavily in radio and TV. Though it has diversified into real estate, CATV and savings and loans, National more than the others still...