Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brains are asking: Why sink most of our development and procurement funds over the next few years into B-58s and liquid-fuel ICBMs that will become obsolete as the Minuteman system builds up? Why not divert some of that money into speeding up Minuteman? With that idea in mind, the Air Force wants to spend more than ten times as much on Minuteman in 1960 as it is spending this year-$250 million v. $22 million. B58 procurement will probably slow down; the Titan program may shrink drastically...
...magnetism? I would like to know how a magnet reaches out and pulls a piece of metal to it." Charlie Kettering was not satisfied with merely asking the questions: all his life he probed for the answers with his pliers, his screw driver, his wrench-and his insatiably curious mind...
...psychologically scarred, suspects his wife of trying to drive him insane, and eventually winds up in a mental institution. To this curdled tale Composer Engel fitted a score shot through with warm lyrical flights that died suddenly in derisively dissonant evocations of the chaos in the soldier's mind. Engel's fellow Jacksonians responded enthusiastically, and the mayor expressed the city's official gratitude by proclaiming the days of the performances to be "Lehman Engel Days...
...psychology-the sort of area a camera can easily get lost in. But Director Jean Delannoy knows exactly where he is going, and with the help of a good story, competent actors, clever lines and clear subtitles, he guides the moviegoer unerringly to the object he has in mind: excellent entertainment...
...relate man to the earth and his own appetites, to describe his need for God and the tortuous spiritual route of the search, and finally to show how man attempts to exorcise his private and worldly devils in a never-ending quest, not for peace of mind but for freedom of soul...