Word: outerness
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...Adams asked. "You were abrupt and somewhat rude," replied Willis. "Oh no," said Adams. "Oh yes," said Willis. "What'll I do?" asked Adams. "I think you ought to say something to them," advised Willis. "Well-all right," said Adams hesitantly. He returned to the outer office, gazed awkwardly at the girls for a moment, and then, striding quickly around the room, thumped each girl on the back with a cheery "Hiya, honey!" He was thoroughly bewildered when the girls began sobbing in earnest...
...blasts of radiation and high-speed particles that hit the earth's atmosphere and form ionized (electrified) layers at high altitudes. Ordinary sunlight does this too, but sunspots beef up the layers and make them strong enough to divert TV signals that would normally pass through into outer space...
...Thirteen non-Communist nations: Austria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Spain. Five Communist states: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Outer Mongolia. * Urged by John Foster Dulles in 1950, while Republican adviser to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, on the ground that "the U.N. will best serve the cause of peace if its Assembly is representative of what the world actually is, and not merely representative of the parts that we like...
...Ceylon it is called parangi, in the Fiji Islands coco, in the Gold Coast dube. By these and some 80 other dread names, yaws is known the world over as a painful, crippling and highly contagious disease that covers the body with sores and eventually eats away the outer flesh. Half its estimated 50 million victims, most of whom caught it as children, are in Africa...
...need to eliminate background noise. Kresge is not menaced by anything quite so formidable as the subway that runs near Carnegie Hall, but M.I.T.'s city campus presented problems. Kresge is insulated by outer glass walls, curved entrance ways, rubber stripping on doors...