Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What does the U.S. stand for in the world other than being the biggest military power and the richest country on earth? One thing it stands for is wrapped up in a well-worn term: "foreign aid." Since World War II the U.S. has helped other countries to revive their economies and backstop their military forces in the amount of $40 billion. Not every dollar or even every million dollars of this has been wisely spent, but on the record the program stands as a unique effort in the history of nations of one country's using its power...
...evils of colonialism" and promised Indonesians that he would serve them as the instrument of "historic necessity." On his release in 1931, Sukarno was greeted by applauding crowds, flowers, gifts. He asked for only ten patriotic youths aflame with love for Indonesia, and "with them I shall shake the earth." The Dutch, already in the long shadows of a dying empire, promptly exiled him to Flores in the Outer Islands, where with thousands of other political detainees he continued his revolutionary education, reading insatiably in Dutch, English, French and Indonesian and drawing new conclusions from an odd compost of Lenin...
...Zealand. Said bearded "Bunny" Fuchs: "We did what we set out to do." What he and his men had done was to cross hostile Antarctica, a 2,100-mile struggle through the world's worst terrain and weather, and complete the last great land journey left to the earth's explorers...
Your editorial, "Subway Shift," and your news story on commuters indicate that I failed to make myself clear in talking with your reporter. It's not a matter of earth-shaking importance, but since several CRIMSON readers have been puzzled by my reported views, I would appreciate it if you would give me enough space to correct the misunderstanding...
...second (2,000 m.p.h.), which is about the muzzle velocity of a high-power rifle bullet. The Air Force scientists expect much higher speeds. It is fortunate, they say, that the Tularosa Basin is not subject to earthquakes. Even a delicate motion of the earth might throw the track out of perfect alignment and wreck the next missile to be used...