Word: outwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outward appearances, South Africa was a nation without a serious problem in the world. Less than two months ago, it had won a surprising victory in the World Court's decision not to interfere with its mandate over South West Africa, and so delirious was the response that special thanksgiving services were held in churches throughout the land. Proclaimed President Charles ("Blackie") Swart at the opening session of Parliament: "In contrast with most countries of the world, South Africa is blessed with racial peace...
...recalcitrant youngsters. He was a Roman Catholic altar boy and a newspaper delivery boy, a pitcher on his parochial school's baseball team and manager of its football team. At twelve years and three months, he became an Eagle Scout, one of the youngest on record. To all outward appearances, the family in which he grew up in Lake Worth, Fla.?including two younger brothers besides his mother and father, a moderately successful plumbing contractor?was a typical American family. Charlie joined the Marines in 1959 when he was 18, later signed up at the University of Texas, where...
...hero of the film, Miguelin, played by an actual matador named Miguelin, rises from poverty to become a famous bullfighter. Although the outward circumstances of his life seem to change for the better, Rosi continually insinuates that they don't. The impressario who grabs a fat chunk of Miguelin's salary as a matador closely resembles the labor contractor he worked for in the slums of Barcelona. Similarly, whores with diamond earrings are no different from the 100 pesatas per night girls he met while still a dock worker. Rosi carries these parallels to extremes; even the jet-set types...
...have no problem knowing when their insult has struck home. They will "immediately notice the sudden contortion of the victim's features, the suffusion of blood to his head, the clasping and unclasping of his hands, the spasmodic twitchings of his whole frame and a number of other outward manifestations of inward disquiet. And surely this will be a sufficient reward...
...produces more and more helium at its core. The doomed star's interior shrinks rapidly; and the density of its core increases. As temperatures rise in the contracting core, the collected helium is converted into successively heavier elements, such as iron and gold, which crowd the lighter elements outward...