Word: donee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, he noted, scientists working in the U.S. have won more than half of the Nobel Prizes in the physical sciences. But there are still too few people at work on basic research (fewer than 30,000, or 4% of U.S. scientists and engineers). What can be done about it? "Regimented research would be, for us, catastrophe," said the President."We must search out the talented individual and cultivate in all American life a heightened appreciation of the importance of excellence and high standards . . . We must be willing to match our increasing investments in material resources with increasing...
...long as it takes two to make a deal, and four to make a peace treaty, Russia's cynicism was justified. Khrushchev wanted only a summit: Eisenhower agreed that Khrushchev ''is the only man who has ... the authority to negotiate." The proxies, their homework done, gathered in Geneva before a thousand staring cameras, with no high hopes. The very first interplay-over tables round or square, over Germans at the table or beside it (see below)-was the kind of picayune fuss that discredits the whole practice of diplomacy. The quick-witted journalists surrounding the closed room...
...Benefactor wants it, and everybody paints once or twice a year. But the houses themselves are miserable one-or two-room shacks, so old and termite-riddled that they list crazily against one another. The children are naked and dirty, the women haggard, and much of the cooking is done on the sidewalk over charcoal braziers-rice, fried bananas, very little meat...
...laugh like a hyena, blacks out, wakes up the next morning in Debbie's bed. "You were wonderful," she sighs adoringly. "You better get some more sleep. After last night you need it." Tony stares at the camera in horror. "What," he asks the audience, "have I done...
...done, as usual, a pretty slick job as a straight-face comic, and he would have done a better job-along with Actor Douglas and Actress Reynolds-if Director George Marshall had not decided to play The Mating Game at a speed less suitable to a romantic comedy than to a board of chess...