Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present rules But there are also those who think that Westmoreland is one man who may achieve the impossible. Says onetime Army Deputy Chief of Staff James Gavin: "Now things are going to be settled one way or the other in Viet Nam; Westy won't let things drift along, He won't mope around about...
...Society, is posed by a brief question: What's happening on Jupiter? Radio signals that once came from the distant planet in regularly spaced bursts are now being received at 1.3-sec. longer intervals. "This is almost as surprising as if the city of Washington had begun to drift across the earth at the rate of ten degrees of longitude (530 miles) per year," said Dr. Smith...
...underlying seriousness emerges in one crisp scene, in which an elderly couple stop in to say hello, and stay for lunch. As the aged innocents chatter amiably about the idyllic days of their own youth, the chasm between generations sets the young hosts fidgeting. One by one, guiltily, they drift away. The point is neatly stated. Too often, though, the film exploits the malaise it pretends to examine, and the drama becomes sociosexual cheesecake, an oversized slice of Danish blue. The camera records what the characters do, but offers few insights into the individuals or the society that produced them...
...Latin America's biggest nation last week, the people in uniform performed a political revolution to match the military uprising that toppled Leftist President Joao ("Jango") Goulart. It was a revolt against Communism and confusion, against demagoguery, corruption, ruinous economic drift and national hopelessness. In a grim and solemn mood, the military announced that it was assuming unprecedented powers and taking over much of the responsibility of government for the remainder of Goulart's term...
This theory of continental drift, though not universally accepted, goes far to explain the ring of active volcanoes and earthquake-prone mountain ranges that surrounds the Pacific Ocean. The original villain is a great mass of plastic rock that is slowly rising under the Atlantic. One hundred and fifty million years ago, all the continents were bunched together, but the rising rock current split them apart, moving North and South America away from Europe-Africa. The split has now grown into the Atlantic Ocean, and down through its center, keeping equidistant between the two continents, runs the mid-Atlantic ridge...