Word: givings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field marshal's uniform on the balcony at Tulkarm, Hussein could see the broad, fertile fields of Israel half a mile away, fields once worked by Arabs. The crowds below were shouting: "King Hussein, our leader, our leader." But mingled in their shouts was the fiercer cry: "Give us back our homes, give us back our homes...
...delight, the oscilloscope showed telltale wiggles. Two months later, he picked up the trail of the Russian rocket that launched Sputnik I. Enlisting the aid of other colleagues, he turned his attention to missile launchings at Cape Canaveral. There he ran into bureaucracy. None of the armed forces would give him notice of projected firings; Tepee's men finally had to set up their own system of volunteer watchers on Cape Canaveral to warn them when a firing seemed imminent. Meanwhile, the FCC caviled about the frequencies he wanted to use. But such nonscientific problems came...
...remarks. "It is not the greatest thing since beer," said one; and an M.I.T. researcher pointed out that "obvious countermeasures [radio jamming] could be used against it." But the Defense Department's careful-going Research Director Herbert York concedes that "the ionospheric backscatter principle is a sound one." Give him a year. Thaler predicted, and he hoped he could go to the Defense Department and say: "Here we have a system. Go ahead with the hardware...
...church cannot be confined to one political bloc," Hromadka explained that he had learned that "as a Christian. I must be prepared for any situation and not rely on established regimes . . . God is greater than the greatest of doctrine man can produce . . . I and my church continue to give testimony of faith. Regardless of conditions, we perpetuate the living church. We must love all men, whether they believe or not." Hromadka bemoaned Communism's atheism, which "weakens church prestige and authority, but also challenges churches to purify themselves." He admitted that "I have certain understanding of and sympathy...
Best Customer. With Nudie setting the styles, movie cowboys moved out of pinched jackets and cornball jeans; the drape shape took over. When the Ivy League look came along, Nudie's customers got that too: "everything slim jim." Then TV arrived to give Nudie's business a real bulge. Wagon Train, Roy Rogers, Annie Oakley, Wyatt Earp and almost all the electronic range riders bought his clothes. Still, he complains, it could have been better. "They wear the same damn clothes for 39 shows...