Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditionalists and iconoclasts. But if you are very cunning you get as far away from extremists as you possibly can because they kick harder." He also had something to say about Beatlemania: "I really could not care less how much noise people make singing and dancing. The noise I object to is people righting and stealing. It seems to me that these blokes are helping people to enjoy themselves, and that is far better than the other thing...
...your left foot out. And you better do it fast, because that's not the hokey-pokey. It's the tinikling, and your toes will be squashed if you don't get them out in a big hurry. The tinikling is a Philippine dance, and the object is to see what deft steps you can pull off while hopping in and out between the two rhythmically clapping bamboo poles. So while he was over at the Philippine embassy in Washington to accept an award, Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, 48, gamely shed shoes and tried his foot...
Most bugging is done with simple apparatus, since the tiny transmitters usually have to be abandoned on the job. The smallest bug in common use is about one inch square, and it must be clipped to a metal object or trail a few feet of wire to serve as an antenna. Its range may be a few hundred feet. In such areas as residential Beverly Hills, where rooms are hard to rent and cars cannot be parked on the streets at night, the electronic sleuth buries a brick-size repeater in the victim's yard, threading its antenna wire...
...conception of the General Education course in Natural Science as commonly derived from the Report of the Committee on the Objectives of General Education in a Free Society has, we believe, led to misunderstanding and a certain alienation in the scientific community at Harvard. Insofar as it is clear that the principal object of a General Education course in science is the teaching of science itself rather than its historical, social, or philosophical implications, we believe that the present misunderstanding and alienation can be diminished...
...President," said Mansfield, "I request that House bill 7152 be read the first time." The Senate clerk read the bill's title. "Mr. President," said Mansfield, "I object to the second reading of the bill today." Those two sentences were part of an elaborate parliamentary maneuver aimed at bypassing the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James Eastland, who could be expected to keep the bill gathering dust for months. By his action, Mansfield retained control of the bill's course. He then announced that the Senate will first take up the Administration...