Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered a total of ten Midwestern presidential primaries, came out of them undefeated, and, in Minnesota last March, very nearly closed the barn door on Adlai Stevenson. It is his appeal to farmers that best explains Kefauver's vote-pulling powers wherever they exist. Many another Democratic politician can point to a farm record as staunch and steady as Kefauver's; Kefauver himself is almost inarticulate in expressing his policies. When asked precisely what he stands for, he is likely to hesitate, ponder painfully, and finally come up with some such phrase as "a place...
Though the U.S. has often boasted that it had no territorial ambitions in World War II, it has in fact kept Okinawa and the Southern Ryukyus and intends to, "so long as conditions of threat and tension exist in the Far East." The U.S. has invested more than half a billion dollars in making Okinawa its military "nerve center" in the Western Pacific, and has told Japan that it has only "residual sovereignty" over the islands...
...remember one night which marked the turning point of my dreams. We had prepared a group for action and selected a person whom we'd decided must cease to exist. We observed his habits and laid down a detailed plan. We were going to shoot him down as he returned to his home in the night...
...public-school teacher must tell all about his own past activities, his superiors have no right to force him to inform on others. "A school system," said Allen, "which sets one teacher against another in this manner is not conducive toward the strength and cohesion which need to exist in order to instill character into the student body...
...anti-proton-atomic twin of the proton but with a negative rather than a positive charge-was once only a well-reasoned theory. Nuclear physicists knew the particle must exist, but not until last year did they lay hands on one, and then they had to create it themselves (TIME...