Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nations signatory to the Geneva pact last year that guaranteed the "neutrality" of Savang's lethargic little kingdom. The first stop had been Moscow, and the Russians showered gifts, including slick Chaika (Seagull) limousines, on the King and his bland, bowing Laotian entourage. President Kennedy did not exert himself to exceed the Russians: he gave the King a desk set and an autographed photo of himself...
...Russia's. By trading with Cuba, by investing in Cuba in so far we can, by educating Cubans, by permitting Cubans to travel to the United States and Americans to travel to Cuba, and in general by promoting contacts and ties between Cuba, and us, we can exert a strong influence on the development of Cuba even under Castro, and we can undermine an important basis of Communist strength there. Our policy unnaturally isolates Cuba from our powerful influenco. D. B. Life...
Seedy Surroundings. Clustered mainly in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, off-Broadway's theaters exert the faintly exotic double lure of intellectual climbing and Bohemian slumming among asthenic men with beards and girls with Lady Godiva hairdos. The playhouses themselves are adventures, or misadventures; in these pleasure domes, a chair arm may fall off at the gentlest touch. But seedy surroundings cannot tarnish the bright promise that off-Broadway holds out and sometimes spectacularly fulfills. It gives new playwrights, directors and actors a voice. On intimate, semiround or full arena stages, old and neglected classics have been given fresh...
...unusually strong magnet, a slice of ceramic material sandwiched between flat plates of soft steel. With the steel focusing its lines of magnetic force in much the same manner that a small lens strengthens a spotlight beam, one of Radus' ceramic sandwiches only an inch square can exert a pull of some 30 lbs. The problem-to make it let go. If a few turns of wire are wrapped around the sandwich, and a small current is sent through the coil for a fraction of a second, most of the pulling power switches in an instant from...
After the match Henri Salaun, one of the country's top players, easily defeated Morris and Paul Sullivan in practice games. Salaun is masterful at not letting his opponents guess where he will hit the ball, and hardly had to exert himself in the practice games...