Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Concept. The main object of the games was to test a new Yugoslav defense concept devised after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. In a development that has gone almost totally unnoticed abroad, Yugoslavia has quietly carried out the world's fastest buildup of conventional forces. More than 1,000,000 Yugoslav workers between the ages of 18 and 45 have been organized into a new auxiliary territorial army, supplementing the regular armed forces and fully equipped with heavy infantry, antitank and antiaircraft weaponry. By 1973 the number will grow to 3,000,000, giving the country...
...tourist compartment-two for themselves and two for their scientific gear-they were setting off on an extraordinary round-the-world odyssey: an expedition to test Albert Einstein's controversial "clock paradox," which, stated simply, implies that time passes more slowly for a rapidly moving object than for an object at rest...
...will, of course, do nothing about this until the land has been cleared and turned into a desolate wasteland. Then a still famished population, with no further Indian tribal lands to occupy, will doubtless become an object of pity for the U.N., which will then be able to launch yet another Operation Begging Bowl...
OUTSIDE London's Marlborough Street magistrates' court one morning last week, a throng of newsmen waited impatiently. The object of their interest, an ostensibly minor Soviet trade official named Oleg Lyalin, 34, failed to show up to answer the charges against him?"driving while unfit through drink." He was resting instead in a comfortable country house near London where, for the past several weeks, he had been giving British intelligence a complete rundown on local Soviet espionage operations. His revelations prompted the British government two weeks ago to carry out the most drastic action ever undertaken in the West against...
...cornfed types and, although between the three of them they don't want to miss a bit of what the city has to offer, they're mostly interested in girls. Particularly Miss Turnstyles, a subway poster girl with whom Gabey instantly falls in love, and who becomes the object of their day-long scavenger hunt. But don't kid yourself. The three aren't just bellbottomed versions of Cornelius Hackel and Barnaby Tucker determined not to "come home until we've kissed a girl." The three have no illusions of securing a happy ending, all they ask are just...