Word: outerness
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...distinction between relative justice and tyranny. Our tyrannical opponent is as unscrupulous as tyrannies always are. . . . Since this new tyranny is not only unscrupulous but possesses the guile to exploit our moral and political weaknesses, it must be the business of a genuine liberalism not to relax our outer defenses but to make our political and economic life more worthy of our faith and therefore more impregnable. War with Russia is neither imminent nor inevitable if we have a creative policy. Let us, therefore, avoid hysteria even while we abjure sentimental illusions...
...TIME correspondent. It was considering the reports of two committees on a projected cluster of gigantic supersonic wind tunnels. To meet the needs of designers, the air would have to blast through the tunnels at fantastic speed. (One.rumor said 3,500 miles an hour.) To simulate conditions in the outer atmosphere, the whole works would have to be cooled nearly to absolute zero (-459.72° F.) and the air pressure inside reduced almost to absolute vacuum...
...chichi-choked benefit in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel wearing a ready-to-wear number, and copped first prize (a bottle of champagne) as the best-dressed woman of the evening. "Shall I take it off?" cried Mrs. Whitney-and did. But what came off was just an outer skirt. It turned out that you could also wear it as a hood or a cape. Financier Whitney said he was proud...
...only reliable meson generators are the mysterious cosmic rays from outer space, which spend most of their force inconveniently high in the atmosphere...
...service was desperately needed, for science had far outrun popular understanding. Relativity was nearly a generation old, but it had not yet penetrated the thin outer layers of the public mind. The Quantum Theory, perhaps even more important, was even less understood. People needed to know that stars were no longer points in space, but convenient physical laboratories, observed through fantastic instruments. People needed to be told that the atom had fallen apart, had dissolved into lesser particles...