Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government. Here to fore un photographed, this side, always dark and turned away from us, has long been a subject of great scientific curiosity and intense speculation. The old rivalry over which branch of the Armed Services would take responsibility for the rocket is over now, and, following a joint declaration by the White House staff, and several misfires, the huge thing has finally gone up. It will be directed through a previously planted tracking station somewhere between the Crater of Security Clearance and the Mountain of Dislocated Responsibility...
...today would be of the caliber of Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis E. LeMay, a man-to-the-moon enthusiast and organizational genius, or Air Force Lieut. General Bernard Schriever, who brought the Atlas ICBM to operational capability, or Admiral Arthur Radford, the retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Bartok's Sonata No. 1, the violin was soaring with impassioned assurance and the piano was spinning a lacy web of sound. After a fine performance of Beethoven's Sonata in A Major, the two performers joined hands again to take their smiling bows. Occasion: a joint recital of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and his pianist sister Hephzibah, after a twelve-year absence from the U.S. musical scene...
Along with Lloyd's optimistic statements about the chances for agreement, comes a program for discussion of controls on underground tests which represents a major step forward in international negotiations. He suggests that a group of scientists from all nations concerned with underground test controls should make joint experiments to evaluate detection methods...
...present instance, while Khrushchev has been trumpeting that "Russia is the greatest power," secure in his disarmament declaration, China has been playing dog in the manger, having treated Khrushchev's visit as unimportant and having refused to issue a joint communique on the occasion. The trouble in India has been explained, so far, as a cover for Tibet atrocities or as an outlet for Chinese territorial expansion needs (Nehru's view...