Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor. I went to her office and discussed the nomination with her. I judged from the questions she asked that there were a number of points which she would carefully examine, and knowing what I felt the answers to those points would be, I concluded that her conscience might lead her to cast a vote against Admiral Strauss...
Khrushchev's loud and boastful talk, as Washington saw it, was largely part of his running war of words that stretched as far back as his threats in the Indo-China crisis (1954) and Quemoy (1955). which were met firmly by the U.S. and did not lead to war. But in the midst of the cultural thaw, the parted-curtain mood, the flutter of peace doves, these threats had to be kept in mind as a continuing clue to Soviet policy...
...like all true scientists, oceanographers are only incidentally interested in the military overtones of their science. They hope that knowledge of the oceans will lead to knowledge of the earth, then of the solar system and the Milky Way galaxy. It may help answer such questions as: Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where are we going? "Adolescents ask these questions," says Revelle, "but grown men do not. It is not because they are unimportant questions, but because grown men have given up." The oceanographers have not given...
Alternative to Subsidy. Such efforts are still small. But enough progress is being made to convince many farmers that a real move away from growing crops to dump on the Government and toward producing what people want to buy could lead to a major expansion of U.S. farm markets abroad...
...Pavlov Route. Man's fate, as Condon sees it, is to work hard, sacrifice much, lead an intelligent, just and fruitful life, and then show up at the Last Judgment minus his pants. Sooner or "later, like the blind beggars toppling after their blind leader in Bruegel's chillingly ironic painting, all the author's characters stumble into the ditch of mortality. Satirist Condon is not afraid to set up outrageously improbable situations to achieve his effects. In his first novel, The Oldest Confession (1958), an Achilles among criminals was brought to heel while trying to hijack...