Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radical changes in U.S. thinking were called for. Was the U.S. ready to follow him? By Acheson's definition, presumably Franco's Spanish dictatorship was entitled to help. And how about Communist Tito? No longer was the State Department talking about winning him over to the Western orbit. In fact, the State Department was now saying that Tito is more valuable to the U.S. -and more deserving of help-as a Communist than if he had renounced Marx. Had Tito rejected Marx as well as Moscow, argued the State Department's "total diplomats," he would not still...
...working as a private detective in New York and the football season playing center on Ottawa's professional team, the Rough Riders. The Murderous Ax, as he is known in his sporting circles, cares little about show business. He trails along patiently in his wife's ascending orbit, watching her diet, cooking her meals, patiently picking up her clothes. As for her career, "the kid's gettin' what she wants," says the Ax. "I don't mind...
...their discovery grew Einstein's relativity, including his historic proof, not then considered fraught with danger to civilization, that matter is equivalent to energy. Out of it grew Niels Bohr's description of the atom as a sort of sun surrounded by electron planets which jump from orbit to orbit emitting quanta of light. Out of it developed the quantum theory, to laymen more arcane than the inner reaches of medieval theology; the quantum theory reduces solid matter to "waves of probability." Out of it blossomed the atomic bomb. No more appropriate discovery than Planck's could...