Word: learns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refreshing to learn that the destiny of this nation is being partially guided through the complexities of the atomic age by one who can evaluate character by "pressing the flesh and looking them in the eye." Dinosaurs, move over...
Most of all, Thach and his men, with their sonar underwater-detection gear, must learn to distinguish between lurking submarines and other mysterious sounds of the undersea. Says Thach: "You've got all sorts of noises down there in that jungle. They are decoys protecting the enemy. Fish talk to one another and smack their lips. Porpoises whistle and amorous whales sound like a fleet moving at full steam. Shrimps chew on things and make an ungodly racket. But those whales! They even foul up our magnetic detectors. They nibble at old wrecks and get nuts and bolts...
Airman Thach confidently expects to learn the art-and soon. Says he: "This is like a chess game; each piece has a different value. By playing them together, by using the submarine-which has the biggest ears-and the aircraft-which has the longest punch-and the airship-which has the quietest touch-you win your game...
...Photographer John Dominis, the Associated Press's John Griffin, and Magnum Photographer Marc Riboud. Armed with a letter from rebel headquarters giving them passage to the front, the trio set out in a wayward bus named Picnic. Stumbling across a battle convoy, they produced the letter-only to learn that they were among government troops...
...Soviet press, he said, would soon publish the complete text of C.I.O.-A.F.L. President George Meany's recent speech on the state of the U.S. economy-"because we want our young people, who do not know what capitalism means, to learn about the drawbacks of your system, not from the words of Mr. Khrushchev, who is known to be anticapitalist, but from Mr. Meany, who supports capitalism." He was getting more playful as the conversation continued, and after one more critique of capitalism, he asked: "Is this propaganda?" He seemed delighted when Dick Scammon said: "In a word...