Word: outerness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...latest Communist state to side with Moscow in the Sino-Soviet dispute is Outer Mongolia, 615,000 sq. mi. of pastureland and rolling hills set smack between the two quarreling titans...
...several years, while both Russia and China poured economic assistance into the remote area, there was some question as to whose satellite Outer Mongolia would be. Then last October Russia did Outer Mongolia the favor of shouldering it into the U.N., and boosted its economic aid to $975 million, clearly overshadowing Peking's handout of $115 million. Last week the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party put its mouth where its money is and denounced Albania's "malicious and slanderous attacks" on Moscow. The Mongolian Reds also dared to criticize Red China...
...surrounding architecture. . . . The Ministry of [Health] was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. It was a place impossible to enter except through a maze of barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barrlers were reamed by gorilla-faced [workmen] in black uniforms...
...housebound housewife, trapped in Outer Suburbia without a car and still desperately in need of a bobby pin or a bottle of shampoo, the Shopmobile will soon be rolling to the rescue. Built for the McCrory Corp., which controls a nationwide empire of retail stores including Lerner Stores, Economy Auto Supply and 600 five and tens, this 1962 version of the old country peddler looks like a city bus with show windows, has hip-wide aisles and every available inch of interior wall space festooned with hardware, notions, toilet items, toys. It will also carry a catalogue from which bulkier...
...remarkably sensitive. The spaces between its plates are filled with neon gas, and when alternate plates are charged with 10,000 volts of electricity, bright streams of sparks streak across the chamber at jagged angles. Those sparks trace the track of cosmic rays, high-energy particles striking down from outer space...