Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ford said he sympathized strongly with the view that the rankings are educationally harmful. "A lot of people dislike the rank in class because it's just another competitive element," he added...
...bomb was not H. Seismographs monitoring the Chinese test site in Sinkiang province indicated a wallop of only 130 kilotons. The Atomic Energy Commission found traces of lithium 6, a thermonuclear material right enough, but the major element in the explosion was enriched uranium-the same as in Peking's two earlier tests. China's first H-bomb will probably be a triple-stage fission-fusion-fission monster of the same "dirty" quality as the giant Khrushchevian 40-megaton bombs that were exploded prior to the 1963 test ban. Those bombs are too big to be delivered...
...naturalness is never naivete. When he says of a successful play, "It's all luck" he says it as one who knows the ins and outs of the New York theatre world, the hard work as well as the element of chance. He admires entertainers tremendously. "My mother liked theatrical people and they were always around the house - not the big names, of course, but they had it in their blood. I remember in particular one family in Flatbush -- one was a showgirl. A showgirl considers herself much above a chorine, you know. There's world of difference...
...year-old Edward Evans and two children whose bodies they buried in shallow graves on the moors near Manchester. For the prosecution, Britain's Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones called 40 witnesses to the stand. The killings were all marked by what Sir Elwyn called "a perverted sexual element." The defendants, he charged, took special care to preserve mementos of the crimes...
...major element in his acne treatment is diet, a prescription that is not so simple as it sounds. Mothers complain that grown boys and girls keep on drinking milk, as in childhood, "because they don't like to chew meat or any food that takes time to eat-they're in too much of a rush." When Dr. Fisher advises teen-agers to cut down on foods rich in both fats and sweets-fried foods, ice cream, peanut butter, whole-milk cheeses (as distinct from cottage cheese), nuts and pastries, many of them set up an anguished wail...