Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China inconceivable. Today, the analysts find the notion that Moscow and Peking will make up any time in the foreseeable future equally inconceivable. Indeed, even in agreeing to hold border talks with the Soviets, the Chinese spoke of "irreconcilable differences" with Moscow. Yet what if the inconceivable should occur once again, and Moscow and Peking were able to reach a genuine reconciliation? Among the possibilities...
...color on a separate transparent map. When McHarg superimposed all the maps atop each other, he saw, shining through the colors, a thin line of white that marked the highway's optimum route. Later he used the same method to pinpoint exactly where different land uses should occur with "the least costs and greatest savings and benefits on all of Staten Island...
Nonetheless, Chichester-Clark's statements, made last July, produced some calm in the province. There was a chance and that was perhaps enough. No one really expected both sides to start dealing fairly with each other right away, but there was a chance. Two important Orange holidays, however, occur in the summer and no one expected them to pass without trouble...
...life had proved to be false. What he had read as the characteristic "signatures" of methane and ammonia in spectrographic information gathered near the Martian south pole, he admitted, were actually produced by a thick layer of frozen carbon dioxide, otherwise called diy ice. How did the embarrassing error occur? Only when he checked out the experiment in his laboratory, Pimental explained, did he learn that a thick layer of dry ice could produce spectral characteristics similar to those of methane and ammonia...
...noise of the dorm fills up the spaces and presses in on the people living there, sounds, words, commands-the voice of the public consciousness. The constricted space of plural living is a sign or sorrow. Free, open space is needed for the fortuitous and the unforeseen to occur, for the emotionally neutral and the amplitude of life everyone has a right to expect...