Word: donning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"What disengagement means is that the whole attempt to create a counterforce [in Europe] to the Soviet force is ended. We cannot create such a counterforce with ground forces in Europe and in the U.S. separated by the Atlantic Ocean . . . Khrushchev says, 'This is a matter on which a...
It was during the course of questioning butchers that Investigator Kaplan's agents uncovered the extortion ring. Butcher Manny Seligman, for one, explained how it worked. He had been summonsed for short weighing by an inspector from the Bureau of Weights and Measures, and he turned up as ordered...
Not since 1798, when the Rev. Thomas Malthus gloomily concluded that "the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man," had Western statesmen and thinkers been so preoccupied with the physical problem of feeding the world's people. At the...
Although reluctant to discuss his plans because "we don't want premature publicity to influence the University either way," Sullivan said, "We want the best in everything--including the best field in the area."
Lecturing before such varied audiences, Duroselle has had an opportunity to note the differences between undergraduates of contrasting nationalities, yet he finds them all rather similar. "There is a bit more individualism in French students," he comments. "That is to say, they don't like so much to be members...