Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...informality, Mikoyan tried out his pitch first on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in a go-minute, off-cuff State Department session, during which he once again, in reasonable tones, laid out Russia's unreasonable stand on a "free" Berlin, left behind a fresh memorandum carrying a near imperceptible sign of a willingness to negotiate...
...Domains. Scurrying to make up for lost time after Sputnik I, the U.S. has put five satellites into orbit (Explorers I, III and IV, Vanguard, Atlas); fired two near-miss lunar probes (Pioneers I and III); started on an array of other satellite or space-probe projects; let development contracts with the Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation Inc. for space-rocket engines with thrusts of 1,000,000 lbs. or more; pushed a man-in-space undertaking, Project Mercury, that is scheduled for announcement this month. But despite the flurry of projects, the U.S. has made disappointingly little progress...
...dressed as a pauper, came begging alms and the villagers turned him away. Only a few women who gave him bread were saved, as well as the oven in which the bread was baked -and the oven survived as a small hermitage on the western shore of the lake near the village of Ribadelago...
...always doing her homework in bed, Marclan saves enough energy to play the piano, teach in her father's Baptist Sunday school, and carry on light campus activities. It has already taken more than 250 pints of blood to keep Marclan Walker up to this pitch of near-normal activity...
First among the North American Protestant mission countries is now India, with 1,883 from the U.S. and Canada; next comes Japan, with 1,549. The Near and Middle East can claim only 2.96% of the total missionary force. Protestant women missionaries now outnumber the men by three...