Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more vigorous, more skilled and more fun than mere doubles. Proportionately, there are fewer singles in the population than there were 20 years ago, because young Americans are tending to marry at an earlier age. But they are the focus of a major part of advertising and salesmanship, the direct target of new approaches in housing and entertainment, the considerable despair of some established institutions, and the apostolate of a freer code of mores for the young. In some quarters, they are called-or like to call themselves-the "swingles...
Searching through biological literature, Ho recorded the imino-acid content of the collagen from a variety of animals, ranging from man to whales, and compared it with their normal temperatures. There was an unmistakable and direct relationship. With the increase of each degree in body temperature, he discovered, there was a specific increase in the proportions of imino acids in collagen...
...also earned him a direct confrontation with Nicklaus, whose power and phlegmatic self-confidence make him the most unwelcome opponent in golf...
Next day L-T-V withdrew entirely, saying it did not want to "enter a contest" for the company. Despite that statement, some who know Ling best are convinced that the next arena in his fight to take over Allis-Chalmers will be in a direct bid to shareholders...
...East Prussia on July 20, 1944. The outcome is an old tory. A chance gesture pushed the bomb out of killing range of Hitler, "thirteen officers were wounded; Hitler was only mildly inconvenienced. Staufenberg, thinking that Hitler had been killed, flew back to Berlin to help di-direct the coup that was to have followed. Before midnight on July 20, he was seized, condemned to death by a ummary court-martial, and executed in the courtyard of the Wehrmacht's headquarters under the glare of headlights from lorries that were driven up to illuminate the scene. As the shots...