Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the heavens around, above and below -blue-black except for the myriad brilliant pinpoints of nontwinkling stars, the glow of the mist-shrouded earth and the hard white disk of the sun -invisible, cosmic radiation particles pierce the space capsule -and riddle the pilot -harmfully or harmlessly, who knows...
Isolation. Loneliness is an appalling depressant by itself. For all his Navy training and lofty motivation, a six-month Antarctic night threw Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd into depression. Airman Donald Farrell, after less than a week of far less severe isolation in a ground-bound cabin (TIME. Feb. 24...
Bearded rabbis in frock coats and black hats stepped solemnly down King George Avenue to the pale gold building, crossed the pastel rose and green entrance hall and climbed the Galilee-marble staircase (or took the elevator) to the huge reception hall on the fifth floor. They mingled there with...
March. The daughter of a Columbia physics professor, Elfrida forthrightly explains her agonized look in the isolation booth: "I've always had this kind of face, frowning and squinting. I'm not hamming."
At considerable cost to their own self-respect, the Yugoslavs-whose Party Congress is already being cold-shouldered by Western Socialist Parties because Tito has two prewar Socialist leaders behind bars-humbly worded their program in a more pro-Soviet manner. Khrushchev decided that the change was not enough, and...