Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere is nicer in the house dining halls than in the Union. With wider tables, you don't have to shake hands with just anybody who drags his sleeve in you mashed potatoes. People soon learn the proper, vaguely distant expression, the limp handshake, the alert, interested way of seeming to listen to someone at the next table--all the marks of the development of really good manners...
...fedora and waving an amiable hand, Malenkov was plainly ready to charm the masses. Thanks to the Yard, there were no masses present, but Georgy made up for their lack by pumping the hands of a cordon of British dignitaries and aiming a volley of telling smiles into the distant lenses of a battery of news photographers. At last, safely ensconced in the sleek, black Russian embassy limousine, he leaped out twice to shake some overlooked hands...
...planners estimated that 1970 would see 152,000 cars downtown, twice today's total. They advised against widening streets, instead visualized a beltway from which cars would pull into multistory parking garages pronged toward the heart of the site; no central city building would be more distant from a parking space than 2½ minutes' walking time. Small shuttle cars would carry the infirm and lazy...
...time reinforcements arrived, the Zulu dagga planters had fled to the impenetrable, distant mountains. Unable to pursue them, police returned to the dagga valley with a fleet of trucks. At week's end they had harvested and destroyed close to 200 tons of deathly dagga...
...desire on the part of have-not nations to repay loans or grants in the future. SUNFED has remained unfed because of the refusal of some Western nations, particularly the U.S., to contribute to the fund before a workable disarmament plan makes smaller defense budgets practicable. Disarmament appears so distant, however, that the United Nations should delay the establishment of SUNFED no longer. The funds this country should contribute to the total $250 million program would barely dent a budget which includes a $44 billion defense program and such a gesture from Washington at this time would inspire an imaginative...