Word: fastener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along religious and partisan lines; while the true issue, the City's backward school system, remains skillfully camouflaged. With mournful cries of political domination by a clique of "Tory Rowers," certain bureaucrats hope to divert attention from their incompetence and, by injecting bigotry in the place of analysis, securely fasten themselves to the gravy train. But no amount of rabid oration or pretended martyrdom can totally obscure the indictment against a school program that places education on a political basis and stumbles along in a thirty-year...
...dictatorship and the democracies, has gone beyond the field of diplomacy. . . . This is the political war and it cannot stop until Russia or democracy wins." Yet Fischer does "not believe Stalin wants a world war" now, or is planning a "violent world revolution." Stalin's strategy is to fasten his dictatorship on the countries Russia now dominates, to expand wherever possible by an incessant ideological war of nerves, against the West. But a war in ten years, says Fischer, is altogether possible...
Agriculture now believes it has the situation under control. Its bee scientists fasten a virgin queen in a small tube and drug her with carbon dioxide. After a while she lays a mass of unfertilized eggs, which can develop only into drones (another odd bee characteristic). The bee men rear these parthenogenetic males to maturity. Then they use one of them to inseminate artificially the same, still-virgin queen. Thereafter her eggs are fertile and develop into females (workers or queens) fathered by her own fatherless...
...Success. Those who asked "How much good is U.N. in a showdown?" might soon have an answer. Russia's Gromyko had vetoed the mild U.S. resolution to set up a two-year border watch there. He threatened now to veto every other scheme the Council could invent to fasten the blame where it belonged-on Greece's Sovietsupported Balkan neighbors. What, then, could...
With entertainment at a premium in summery Boston, it is good to be able to fasten on something worthwhile. And "Jungle Virgin" and "Teen Age" can be enjoyed, one way or another. There are also some shorts, but better not talk about that...