Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress, for its third session in 15 years. Among the "elected" Deputies on hand was, of course, Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who had just celebrated his 71st birthday, and who, according to the New China News Agency, was still the object of "boundless love...
...Johnson had taken on their maiden flights were the Air Force's F-102 and F-106. In both planes, something went wrong with the landing gear. Said Johnson, in dry tribute to the fact that the F-Ill's landing gear had worked perfectly: "The principal object of the first flight of any airplane is to make a successful first landing...
...customs require new, uncustomary terms. Folk singers in Washington, D.C., strum the strings of an ax. At Chicago a strong drinker is a long hitter; at the University of Texas those who can't hold it crash and burn under the table. A bag is an object, group or mood. I am in a pizza bag means "I want pizza." Where is the beard bag? means "Where are the beatniks...
Passengers flying between San Francisco and Los Angeles on Pacific Southwest Airlines last week were startled to hear the pilot announce that a strange object had appeared on the radar screen. After a moment, the pilot added that the object had landed on the wing. Just then Santa Claus burst forth from the cockpit and chortled down the aisle, dispensing good cheer to all. Santa was actually taking part in a fierce dogfight for mastery of the sky on the world's most heavily traveled aerial freeway. More than 1,800,000 passengers flew on the 347-mile corridor...
...talents as an authentic but broom-less witch. If the ratings are correct some 32 million people watch this show each week, in which the same sort of thing happens over and over again- something breaks, the girl's nose twitches, the film is run backwards, the broken object is whole again, tune in again next week, same time, same staple...