Word: drift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mills thinks that the prevention of World War III is the most important task of the present day, but he also thinks that "The drift and thrust toward World War III is now part of the contemporary sensibility--and the defining characteristic of our time." He believes that all significant problems of contemporary man and society bear upon the issues of war and peace...
...varied police record. In 1941, already a veteran of two prison terms for narcotics-dealing and armed robbery, he drew a 12-to-15 year sentence for robbing a bank messenger of $108,000 in Asbury Park, N.J. Paroled after five years, a three-time loser, he joined the drift of strong-armed ex-cons into labor racketeering, made enough money to buy a $40,000 house in Mountainside, N.J. for his wife and two small daughters. A month ago Tough Guy Dugan, 52, turned up in Chester. His mission: switching White's workers from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. International...
...Skate" was a mile-square ice floe, 10 ft. thick. It drifted on the cap of the globe, beyond the Arctic Circle, whose mysteries are as dark as those faced by Columbus, Magellan, and De Soto. There, 20 Air Forcemen and scientists participating in the International Geophysical Year took over a simple camp: 20 Quonset huts, mess hall, science laboratory, 5,000-ft. runway and an electric homing beacon for supply planes. And there they resolutely logged their fresh jigsaw pieces of knowledge about water masses, current patterns, ice drift, season changes and marine life...
...that has aroused the most heat is the question of what issues to discuss. Rockefeller wants to debate only state issues; Harriman calls this a new form of isolationism; so the candidates debate nothing. The one concrete issue that Rockefeller has raised is that of the so-called "economic drift" of the state under the Harriman administration. To this point Harriman has an apparently convincing answer: under Republican Dewey New York dropped from second to seventh in per-capita in come, but in the past three years the state has moved back up to third place...
...Scalawags. Tough, jowly President Iskander Mirza, who once declared himself in favor of "controlled democracy," watched the drift to chaos with mounting disgust. Son of a wealthy Bengal family,*graduate of Britain's Sandhurst, a major general before independence, he had long regarded most politicians as "crooks and scalawags." A Moslem who drinks whisky, smokes, shoots and rides, Mirza has always been blunt about his aristocratic creed: "Democracy requires breeding. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do . . . There has to be someone to prevent the people from destroying themselves...