Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French farce seasoned to U.S. tastes by Adapter-Director Abe Burrows and served with unerring timing by a well-chosen cast. Lauren Bacall is drolly dry as a spinsterish nurse with a voice that would intimidate gangrene, and Barry Nelson is convincingly mock-innocent as a dentist with a master's degree in bachelorhood...
...have medium-range ballistic missiles (range: 1,500 miles) by 1967 and intercontinental ballistic missiles (range: 5,500 miles) by 1975-thus making it possible for Red China to send nuclear weapons smashing into Western Europe. Recalling Defense Minister Lin Piao's arrogant boast that China's master strategy is to take over "the cities of the world," McNamara noted pointedly that the threat applies as much to Europe...
...frozen foods (a "very lousy" thing in the White House, he complained). That was the beginning of the end. The end came ever closer when she also insisted on pointing out her favorite recipes in a well-thumbed copy of the Gourmet Cookbook. "I have a master pastry chef who has been doing these things for 40 years," muttered the disconsolate chef. "You just don't open the cookbook to page 40 and stick it under his eyes...
...despite occasional student riots organized by the left, the students' competitive drudgery makes even the American race for college seem relaxed by comparison; a Japanese youngster who fails to get into a university is called a ronin, the term for the pathetic samurai who wandered about without a master...
While the fighting in Viet Nam makes most of the news, one of the world's largest and swiftest construction programs is changing the face of the country. The U.S. Government is directing a massive master plan aimed at providing the immediate necessities of war (bridges, roads, barracks), long-range civilian needs (power plants, water systems) and the huge strategic complexes (harbors, airfields, roads) necessary for supplying U.S. troops in a distant land with food, arms and equipment. Working at a vigorous pace, military engineers are planning and building dozens of the projects; so is the government-run Agency...