Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orange-and-white segments of the parachutes and pick out details of the rescue helicopters hovering protectively like giant fireflies, their bright running lights flashing on and off. Finally, precisely eight days, three minutes and 25 seconds after its lift-off from Cape Kennedy-a scant 35 seconds less than the total time calculated for the entire mission by planners six months ago -Charlie Brown splashed safely into the warm waters...
...Those are human beings up there, and they acted like human beings," one said. "That's all, no more and no less...
More than half the mothers in her study eventually married, and despite the stereotype of the fatherless slum family, half of them were still in touch with the first child's father or living with him. Although half the women were less than 20 years old when they had their first child, close to a third had no other children. Nearly half the mothers were not on welfare at the time the survey was made; only one-third had been on public assistance for a year or longer. And as for blatant immorality, the statistical evidence, although not clear...
...Scotland, which Fielding has not visited since 1966.) Ole Simon, as the only operative with an 00 designation, cuts his own orders, and they are invariably the same: he and Nancy do their spying in London, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Copenhagen (a Fielding favorite). The others are assigned to less salubrious spots...
...Federal Reserve has been fighting inflation in much the same way so far in 1969, but until now the results have been less severe. Last week the board's policy of "resolute restraint," as Chairman William McChesney Martin describes it, hit home so hard that many bankers concluded that another crisis is imminent. "This is certainly the worst credit squeeze since 1966," said Beryl Sprinkel, chief economist of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "The question is whether it will get as bad as 1966. We're moving very rapidly in that direction...