Word: laterizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came the greatest scientific surprise of the trip. The tremors continued far beyond expectations. "It is as though someone struck a bell in the belfry of a church and it kept reverberating for 30 minutes," explained Maurice W. Ewing, director of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. Later scientists said that reverberations had lasted as long as 55 minutes. "We've never seen anything like it on earth," said M.I.T. Geophysicist Frank Press. "We're not sure what it means, but probably it will represent a major discovery completely unanticipated about the moon." It could mean...
...speaking order at the talks was determined by the toss of a coin-an American quarter. The Soviets called tails and won the right to speak first. The U.S. became the home team and held the first session in its embassy; the second, two days later, took place in the Soviet embassy. The sessions were marked by an encouraging absence of polemics and posturing. Each side seemed earnest and genuinely eager to get down to the essentials of the difficult and long bargaining that was bound to precede an arms agreement. Unlike most international conferences that meet amid splendor...
Dayan's maneuver proved that Mrs. Meir still considers him a necessary component in her finely balanced Cabinet. Even so, Dayan emerged from the crisis with something less than total victory. Later that day, after Golda and Moshe returned to the Cabinet, which was still in session, the Ministers refused either to approve or disapprove his doctrine of neighborhood punishment. Instead, they agreed on a formula to limit the old war hero's freedom of action. In the future, the general must have clearance from the Cabinet or its security committee before he punishes a whole community...
...their discomfort, as he accepted an honorary D.Lit. before the final performance at Temple's Tomlinson Theater. Friedrich Durrenmatt, 48, irreverent son of a Protestant minister, read his acceptance speech seated on a rumpled bed on the play's set-the same bed where, a few minutes later, a naked woman sprawled as her husband painted her portrait. Said the Swiss dramatist: "My academic career has now been successfully completed. I broke it off 23 years ago to write my first play instead of a dissertation, because I came to believe that one can think not only...
...writing, eventually fulfilled, but he tries to become a butcher. He fights his father; yet he wants his father's approval-and deeper still, he wants to be his father. In scenes that are amusing and astute, the son proposes marriage to his father's mistress and later tries to coax his mother into leaving the awful man and coming to live with...