Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev sneered at Tito and other "ideological windbags" who "exist only because of the alms they receive from imperialist countries in the form of leftover goods ... I cannot refrain from asking the question which deeply concerns all Communists everywhere. Why do the imperialist bosses, while striving to obliterate from the face of the earth the socialist states and squash the Communist movement, at the same time finance one of the socialist countries, granting that country credits and free gifts? . . . Everyone knows that the imperialists never give money to anyone without a purpose, just for the sake of 'beautiful eyes...
...contrasts do not exist merely between public and private schools. American high schools range all the way from Scarsdale High and Newton High (above right) which have many advanced courses of the college freshman type for able students, to the poorer high schools which spend a disproportionate amount of time in driver training, cooking, shop, home-making, and other such pursuits, to the very worst institutions in the country such as the school shown above (left...
...these admirers do exist, if the coy jacket notes are to be trusted. The rest of us had better stick to Palestrina or Muddy Waters, according to taste...
...Allen was sure that no ray-free belt could exist between the earth and space. The only reasonable explanation, he decided, was that the silenced Geiger tubes had been knocked out temporarily by radiation too intense for them to handle. So he subjected a spare tube to X-ray bombardment in the laboratory. After studying its behavior, he decided that the tubes carried by the satellites must have passed through radiation equivalent to 35,000 counts per second, but were so choked up that they could not report their experience...
...attractive than they first seem; most countries have to accept barter instead of hard cash, often find Russian goods shoddy, Soviet maintenance poor. But so long as the threat of a congressional cutback in U.S. aid and trade programs and increasing pressure for more U.S. tariffs on basic commodities exist, the attractions of the Soviet lure are apt to become even stronger. U.S. business will not only lose some of its present markets, but, far more important, will be kept out of the markets of the future...