Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College yesterday overwhelmingly approved the Student Council's plan to change its voting system from a preferential to a "direct-ballot" method...
...system will take effect immediately. The coming elections for Senior Class Marshal, Senior Class Committee, and for Council Class and House Representatives will incorporate the direct-ballot...
...unfortunate truth was that Premier Souvanna Phouma had already placed his Communist half-brother in control of the Ministries of Planning and of Reconstruction and Urbanization. In these posts he will direct how and where a large part of the U.S.'s aid money (some $43 million this year) will be spent. Ironically, the other Cabinet post assigned to the Pathet Lao Communists was the Ministry of Religion and Fine Arts...
...monitor unit and chain-smoking ("Three packs of Sponsor Marlboros a day"), Frankenheimer bellowed comments to his cast and production staff. "That's the shot! It's beautiful. I love it." "It's sloppy. It stinks." "Shoot tight on someone in the foreground." He turned to direct a scene where Gazzara has just discovered that his roommate is dead. "Okay. Start Benny out of the bathroom, fellows. C'mon, I don't have much time." (Explained Frankenheimer on the side: "If you don't drive them, you have last-minute panic...
...m.p.h.) a satellite is a sitting duck. Its motion on its orbit can be predicted precisely, days in advance if necessary. So if any kind of satellite makes itself objectionable to a nation that it passes over, a defending rocket can be shot up 'to meet it. A direct hit by the rocket would not be necessary. When it reaches the satellite's orbit, its warhead could explode into thousands or hundreds of thousands of tiny artificial meteors, any one of which packs enough energy to do a job on the satellite...