Word: orbits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them a symbol of failure. Communism has been forced into ideological retreat inside its own empire. Eight years of striving to Bolshevize East Germany in the Soviet image failed in the uprising of June 17. In the westernmost, and in many ways the most strategic, outpost of the Kremlin orbit, people rose up, without arms or organization or leaders, against the whole strength of a totalitarian regime and the Soviet army of occupation. They were suppressed, and not one inch of ground was wrenched from beneath the Red flag. But in their audacity, the East Germans 1) exposed their bosses...
...Shook the hand of plump Elizabeth Hess, 13, the national spelling champion, and confessed that, as a small boy he had been spelled down on "syzygy." The President further obliged Elizabeth with a definition: "Having to do with the orbit of the moon" (pretty close to Webster's "The point of an orbit, as of the moon, at which the planet is in conjunction or opposition...
...Unità: "Facile prophets have declared that Picasso doesn't give a hoot for ideological content. But Picasso has again shamed and belied them." Party-liners are not likely to say the same of Portinari, who seems to be drifting out of the Communist orbit. His murals have "no party intention," he explains. "They are the point of view of mankind...
...military alliance with the West would harden for good the division of West and East Germans. It would do the opposite, said Dulles; a strong West Germany would provide such an "attraction" to East Germany and other satellites that it might in time pry them away from the Eastern orbit. Perhaps even now, in the convulsions of a new purge, said Dulles, the Communists are showing "stress and strain." Dulles made the shrewd move of conferring with Socialist Party Leader Erich Ollenhauer (the only opposition leader he saw on the trip), listened to the Socialist's counterarguments, then firmly...
...learned astronomers would ever take serious note of his lifetime hobby. While studying navigation at the Kweek School voor de Zeevaart (a merchant marine academy), he heard about the zodiacal light, a faint, wedge-shaped glow that reaches into the sky near the plane of the earth's orbit. It is best seen in the tropics just after dusk or just before dawn. Astronomers now believe that it is sunlight reflected from small particles revolving around the sun like miniature planets, but in Drent's youth the experts disagreed about nearly all details. So when...