Word: outwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outward calm that marked his vacation last week, Morocco's 33-year-old monarch had problems on his mind. They had to do with the outcome three weeks ago of the nation's first legislative election in seven years of independence. Hassan had been proud to take this cautious step toward democracy, but he had also been confident that his own royal party, the F.D.C.I., would win an overwhelming majority of seats of the 144-member House of Representatives...
...jumpy but undeniably vigorous bullfrog, establishing a style that never leaves him. Not a word of the part inclines me to believe anything but that Henry is chiefly a moraliser, that saving his vision of Jerusalem his is unimaginative, that his health is bad, and that his principal outward characteristic is almost uncanny self-restraint. Simons displays none of these qualities; their essential counterpoise to those of Hal is smothered...
Until recently, the only outward manifestations of revolt were a few student marches, and individual acts of defiance. But now Haiti's U.S. -trained 5,000-man army is dissatisfied with Duvalier, and embittered at being upstaged by the ragtag militia. Last month a group of army officers hatched a plot to depose Duvalier. When the dictator got wind of the coup, four of the officers involved managed to take refuge in the Brazilian embassy. A fifth, Colonel Charles Turnier, was picked up and dragged to Dessalines barracks for "questioning." Next morning machine guns rattled in the barracks...
...ultraviolet spectrometer, about the size and shape of a window box, will provide new information about the solar flares that erupt now and then from the sun's atmosphere, appearing as tongues of luminous gas flicking outward around sun spots. During a flare, clouds of ionized hydrogen gas--protons and electrons--shoot out, filling interplanetary space with intense radiation. When these clouds encounter the earth and pass through the earth's magnetic field into the polar regions, they produce the northern lights, and cause short-wave radio transmission to fade or black...
...every political scientist knows, there is something more to the club than its outward friendliness. It is the unseen power structure of the Senate, commonly called the Establishment, that every freshman Senator must work with. Political scientists seem to know more about it than freshmen senators, some of whom cautiously admitted only the possibility of its existence...