Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television performer between 1959 and 1962 that handsome, red-haired John Freeman became a nationwide celebrity though British viewers of his astringent Face to Face interview show each week seldom saw anything but the back of his head as the cameras zoomed in for closeups of the object of his relentless inquisitorial style. One TV star burst into tears when questioned about his homosexual inclinations. Nixon, who submitted to a Freeman interview in 1951, impressed the future ambassador as "a very good subject indeed," even though they were poles apart in their political views...
Borman was informed of his overtime by University of Maryland Physicist Carroll Alley who, at the request of NASA officials, calculated the effects on the astronauts of two phenomena described by Einstein's relativity equations: 1) time actually runs slower for an object as its speed increases-the so-called "time dilation" effect, and 2) time speeds up for an object as it moves away from a body (like the earth) exerting a gravitational force...
Although we support the principle appealed to in the statement on academic freedom signed by some members of Quincy House and printed in the CRIMSON on February 25th, we strongly object to the misuse of our names in this advertisement...
...incidents of old-fashioned nastiness have several intriguing elements in common. For one thing, they generally involve nations that have no mutual diplomatic relations or, if such links exist, they tend to be severely frazzled. For another, the favorite object of attack almost always involves vehicles-airliners, autos or ships-which points up the essential vulnerability of international transportation. A third point of similarity is that Communist and other totalitarian nations seem most ready to flout established diplomatic legitimacy (there are exceptions), doubtless because such regimes are freer to act without taking public opinion into account. Certainly the arbitrary...
...asking, "Do you really know what you are talking about when you praise old masters?" Says Tunberg, who is working on a construction showing a pair of hands making a pie: "Art is not just a scene or a picture any more. It is an object that exists for itself, but it also conveys something more than pure decoration-not exactly a message, but a hunch...