Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Partly to remedy this numerical weakness, there is talk of a merger with the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Its program includes "both study and political action," and SANE hopes "through petitions, communication with Senators and Representatives, and participation in Congressional hearings to direct and make articulate an informal public opinion...
...Tribesmen. For Japan's 46,780,000 women, Michiko-san's unprecedented break with ancient tradition is the most dramatic illustration of a change that has come to all of them-the direct result of the crushing defeat of Japan in the Pacific war, the unsettling occupation of the green and pleasant islands by U.S. troops, and the new constitution established by the conqueror, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, in 1946. Since then, strange rents have appeared in the densely woven fabric of Japanese society, ranging from Emperor Hirohito's public disavowal of the "false conception...
...Hotel were filled with men in silk suits and women in mutation mink. Steak dinners were snapped up at $10 a plate; drink-hustling waiters peddled hooch by the bottle ("Ya might as well. Yer payin' for it"). Then the M.C. silenced the house with a simple announcement: "Direct from the bar of the Boom Boom Room [another Fontainbleau saloon] we bring you the vocalist, Frank Sinatra...
Living under a so-called "honor registration system," symbolized by the dormitory key, the 'Cliffe "signs out" by writing her name and destination in a special book provided for the purpose. Permission to stay out later than 1 a.m. is fairly easy to obtain, in direct contrast to Wellesley, where special after-one permissions are almost unheard...
...goes on at Thule and Clear, Air Force engineers, electronics contractors and subcontractors are building monster radar screens, each half again as long as a football field, tough enough to stand against 185-knot gales. The screens-four at Thule, three at Clear-will detect Communist missiles along a direct line of sight tangential to the earth after the missiles have been airborne for five minutes of their 30-or-so-minute nights toward U.S. targets. Then smaller radars inside mammoth 150-ft. domes-three at Thule, two at Clear-will track the incoming missiles, feed data on speed, course...