Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Energy aplenty remains for games, dancing, painting, play-acting and frequent debates. One recent subject: "Does God exist?" To East's surprise, God won-by one vote...
Calm, blue-eyed James McDonnell likes to backslap "my teammates" whenever he is particularly pleased with some success, and lately he has had frequent occasions to do so. Largely because McDonnell farsightedly started designing space capsules long before Washington asked for them, his company won the coveted Mercury contract, a $130 million program. It has turned out 20 capsules so far, last week was busily mocking up a new two-man "Gemini" capsule that is slated for test flying by 1964. More important for the McDonnell balance sheet, President Kennedy recently requested $1 billion to equip the Air Force with...
...party government of Chiang Kaishek, but when the choice had to be made between the Chinese Communists and the Nationalists, the philosopher and the Generalissimo were reconciled. In debate at the United Nations and on lecture platforms everywhere, Hu Shih spoke boldly and forcefully against Red tyranny. Frequent ill health inclined Hu Shih to nine years of scholarly retirement in New York and Princeton, but in 1958 he again returned to Formosa to serve as president of the Academia Sinica, Nationalist China's renowned research institute. He also worked out a complex interpretive system of population analysis, which convinced...
...sources of his fascination with technology lie in a fervid desire to create a world in which peace is possible and in which man can pursue his interests and desires wtih far greater freedom than known today. His writings only hint at this humanity; for only in his frequent use of conception-pregnancy-birth metaphors does a humane tone hesitatingly emerge...
...talk. His talk may be circuitous, verbose and disorganized--it is also seldom anything less than brilliant. He speaks with an obvious respect for those listening, and imports an aura of friendliness, if not of vibrant warmth. Having a rather inexpressive face, he relies heavily on gesticulation--vast and frequent sweeps of the arm. He has a large head, set on broad shoulders and a stocky frame. His clothes fit loosely...