Word: driftings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite these pieties, Dent is regarded by many liberals as a Southern-fried Rasputin in the Nixon Administration. Whenever the White House seems to drift to the right or placate Southern interests, Presidential Aide Dent is thought to be deeply involved. He was, after all, a close associate of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's for many years. When the ultraconservative Thurmond switched to the Republican Party in 1964, Dent followed and was soon G.O.P. state chairman. Now, as a Nixon staff member, Dent is involved in a variety of assignments, but the ones with which he has been...
...sometimes contradictory" groping toward new alliances based on regional cooperation. Groups like the ten-country Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) and the five-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), though still involved in "more discussion than action." aim to improve economic and cultural relations. They may also drift into some sort of role in regional security...
Nonetheless, some scholars concede that a Christian baptism of violence could have tragic implications for American Negroes. The Rev. C. Shelby Rooks, executive director of the Fund for Theological Education at Princeton, unhappily notes: "A drift toward community separation, toward violence, toward the denial of our common brotherhood with white men that the Gospel proclaims." Black militants may attempt to impose the doctrine of violence on their own community, in which case Rooks predicts that "it is highly likely that there may soon be black martyrs at the hands of black people...
...also have found possible confirmation of the "big bang" theory. If the universe had indeed been born in a cataclysmic explosion eons ago, it would still be expanding in all directions. Despite their continued drift away from the original blast, the individual parts of the universe would remain in approximately the same position in relation to one another - much like the lettering on the surface of an expanding balloon. That, says Conklin, is the pattern of galactic movement indicated by his observations...
...their theory, meteors often strike the moon with enough momentum to knock lunar fragments loose at escape velocities. Most such fragments captured by the earth's gravitational pull would be incinerated as they plunge through the atmosphere. But those in a certain size range, the scientists say, would drift down and arrive on earth relatively unscathed, safely delivering any organisms they might contain...