Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...envoys accredited to the Holy See were invited by diplomatic custom to present their credentials to the new Pope, Papée and Girdvainis received no invitations. Vatican Secretary of State Domenico Tardini explained that the omissions were made because the two diplomats represented "phantom" governments that are no longer recognized by other countries accredited to the Holy See. That statement itself was enough for old Vatican hands to sense a new atmosphere; under Pius XII, who made a point of keeping the Polish and Lithuanian envoys as anti-Communist symbols, there had not been any reference to phantoms...
After a few more moments on the evolutionary time scale, earth's restless social primate, man, can almost surely make himself felt throughout the system. Earth's life will no longer be confined to the earth. This startling development took place with explosive suddenness. Boys still in high school remember a time when sensible citizens considered space flight as impractical as hunting leprechauns. Only ten years ago the altitude record for rockets, 250 miles, was held a brilliant achievement. Only two years ago, the earth satellite, that humblest of space vehicles, seemed an almost impossible project...
...deconversion? Obviously, if each student gets his own study bedroom, he will have to pay for it, and this means higher rents. Former Dean Leighton feels that, when the Houses begin deconverting this Fall, the demand for the more expensive "uncrowded" suites will be limited. "When the student no longer casts his dollar vote for deconversion," he observes, "then I am for expansion...
...experts reckoned without a slim, crew-cut young man named Alex Olmedo. Nicknamed "The Chief." for his resemblance to an Inca prince, Olmedo, 22, is a citizen of Peru. He qualified for the team because he had lived in the U.S. longer than the required three years, and Peru had no team of its own. At California's tennis-playing Modesto Junior College and later at the University of Southern California, where he had been sent to have his game sharpened under the watchful eyes of Kramer and other pros. Olmedo had shown promise, but little of the determination...
...turning back into San Bernardino Strait, north of Samar when he might have dealt a telling blow to a U.S. force inferior in speed and firepower. But Shima offers the schoolboy historian an understandable summing up of Japanese hesitancy at Leyte: "A further defeat meant to Japan no longer incidental losses but loss of life itself...