Word: facet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Quest. The machines are but a small example of the flood of new products that are transforming industry and the American way of life, and hold the promise of a new industrial era in the 1960s. No facet of living-or of manufacturing-has escaped the restless minds of inventors trying to devise newer, cheaper, faster or better ways of doing things. Some are as simple and gadgety as the self-shaking mop; some are as complicated as the sealed-window, almost dust-free house. Some are as frivolous as a musical toothbrush that sounds a sour note when...
...decisions of the party." Last year Communist agents from abroad flocked in to help with Red barter deals and aid programs, which Touré was happy to accept as an alternative to bankruptcy. Now Czechs, Poles, East Germans, Hungarians and even Red Chinese have their fingers in almost every facet of the government from the physical education program to economic planning. Under their guidance, Guinea has replaced the French franc with a currency of its own printed in Czechoslovakia. Western goods have vanished from shop shelves, and Communist cement clogs the wharves in payment for Guinea's bananas...
...First, drafting of agreements on every facet of disarmament, including space weapons, creation of an International Disarmament Organization to have increasing powers of supervision, and a reduction of U.S. and Soviet troop strength to 2,500,000 each...
...Power runs General Telephone as quietly and efficiently as a college classroom. He issues few memos, calls few meetings, likes to keep 9-to-5 hours so that he can spend time with his wife (they have two daughters) in their Manhattan apartment. He pores over every fact and facet of a business deal logically and dispassionately, then makes decisions about a $1,000,000 or a $100 million outlay with equal calm. He permits his subordinates wide latitude in running their departments, gives them pep talks in the "go-out-and-win" manner of a football coach. Said...
This limerickization of a facet of Einstein's theory of relativity is a sample of the witty, plain-speaking physics that has moved over 900 University of California students to sign up for next semester's early-morning (8 o'clock) freshman course, catalogued simply as: "Physics 10. Descriptive introduction to physics." Limerick-wielder, parablist and reason for the rush: the lecturer in Physics 10 this spring, Dr. Edward Teller. The brilliant theoretical physicist credited with a major role in perfecting the H-bomb. Teller, in a series of appearances since 1955 on San Francisco...