Word: lacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast with Stalin's lack of concern with living standards, Khrushchev has attempted to solve these problems. "From my own and other people's conversations with the Russians, I think they are impressed by what has been achieved lately," Bergson comments...
...explained that "the climate of opinion has changed in the last few years," and students have come to realize that knowing very little about the Asian population is just as dangerous as a lack of scientific knowledge...
Logistic Support. In San Miguel, N. Mex., when county officials were on the verge of closing the one-room grade school for lack of students, the hamlet's residents averted the peril by hiring a teacher with three school-age children...
...experts consider them extraordinarily good, considering the fantastic difficulty of getting them at all. To laymen, the moon's far side, long populated by storytellers with strange beasts and weird civilizations, looks disappointingly like its visible side. But astronomers find it surprisingly different. They point to the comparative lack of the big, roundish, dark "seas" that are so common on its known face. The area newly pictured shows only one really big sea, which the Russians named the Sea of Dreams. A smaller sea they named the Sea of Moscow, and to several craters they gave the names...
...welled up in the holes, and is visible there today. Kuiper thinks that the shock of the last big asteroid, which dug the sea called Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains), may have caused pressures inside the moon that made lava flow out in other places, forming other seas. The lack of seas on the far side of the moon, says Kuiper, favors this theory, since the meteor impact that dug Mare Imbrium would affect the far side less strongly...