Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more quickly and ruthlessly than the U.S. can. Comments the Economist: "It looks as if the Russians are planning not for peace or for war, but for what the West calls cold war . . . From the point of view of the Soviet rulers, the cold war is probably the ideal planning situation, for just sufficient tension can be maintained to justify the priority given to heavy industry . . . and to convince most workers-without frightening them unduly-that the delay in improving their standard of living is due, not to their own government, but to the threats of the capitalist world outside...
...story control tower. Another camera, set between the tracks (with floodlights) and aimed upward, inspected the passing cars for cracked truck frames, broken springs, missing journal-box lids, etc. Though the equipment will continue to be tested for operation in snow and sleet conditions B. & O. already pronounced it "ideal for watching yard operations-especially blind spots and ends of yards distant from the yardmaster's office." The biggest appeal for RCA's new closed-circuit TV unit was its price: $5,500, only one-third or less of the cost formerly required to set up a circuit...
...know what a comfort it is to think that I am never going to be shy again." With two such restrained parents, it is no wonder that "Hughie" developed an insatiable appetite for romance and popular approval, and that he spent much of his life searching for the "ideal friend"-one over whom he could pour buckets of love and "understanding...
...more as a man than as a woman . . . Later on, say in two years' time, if you want a house and would like to settle down, I'd like to marry you." The ripping girl wisely said no. Years after, when Hughie had found more than one ideal friend among his own sex, she asked him: "What would you have done if I'd said yes? . . ." "Oh," he answered airily, "I should have rearranged my life accordingly." "Certainly," says Hart-Davies, "a great deal of rearrangement would have been necessary...
...case, people who know how the Navy mind operates believe that the Navy was expressing a deep-seated prejudice against technical specialists. Both the Army and the Air Force have partially broken down similar prejudices. The well-rounded officer in those services is still regarded as the ideal, but they recognize that in a technological age specialization is so valuable and so unavoidable that specialists cannot be barred from high rank...