Word: deviationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blip & Buzzer. Every day 25,000 aircraft, on the average, are flying over the U.S., and all are suspect until proved friendly. Every plane flying near target areas or over 4,000 ft. must file a flight plan; any deviation of ten miles or five minutes attracts jet interceptors.
Unnatural Laws. The things that science deals with, said Gold, range in size from electrons (radius 10 -13 cm) to the universe itself (radius 10 27 cm). Man, the earth and the solar system lie midway between the two extremes, and the laws that govern them have become so familiar...
"The outbreaks were dealt with as best we could," said U Nu. "Only after some time did we realize our mistakes." He first tried to win the Communists back into "leftist unity" by appeasement; he referred to them as "ignoramuses" in their deviation from the true Marxism, and drafted a...
Says Thomson: "Unusual works have more news value than Toscanini. The history of music is the history of composition, not performance. There is great validity in the constant performance of classical music, but the real news is deviation from the routine. For instance, I might be very fond of roast...
So the arrests and trials went on and as spring lengthened into summer, the executions began. On June 10, the first witch was hanged on Salem's Gallows Hill. In July, five went to their deaths on the gallows, in August five more, and on a single day in September...