Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colored People feared that the North Carolina-born judge would be anti-Negro on the Supreme bench. The combined A.F.L. and N.A.A.C.P. lobbies were :nough to cause what the Washington Post recently called "one of the worst psychological lynchings in which the Senate has ever indulged." Showing no outward rancor, John Parker continued his brilliant service to American jurisprudence, no-ably in his support of the Supreme Court's decision against segregation...
...calculated repression and artificial prosperity have produced an outward semblance of order. Last week things were running smoothly enough for the government to announce that 17,000 Soviet troops would be gone by the end of the month. Moscow will still have an estimated 100,000 troops left in Hungary-just in case...
...together with but a single thought in mind: the care and catching of men. Thus, unlike such U.S. monthlies as Good Housekeeping and McCall's, most British women's magazines seldom brood over weighty social problems. Explains one of their top executives: "All other magazines turn people outward and away from themselves. Women's magazines deliberately invite the woman to think about herself...
...that unattractive." Largely because of their uncertainty about father and mother. 15 of the 20 had homosexual relations. None of the girls had any capacity for solid friendships, sought out friends who were unstable because of similar emotional conflicts. Yet they desperately wanted to conform in some outward respects: one joined the D.A.R. and the United Daughters of the Confederacy...
...walls are subjected to high pressure. They must be strong but also light, and one of the most promising materials is sheet plastic reinforced with glass fibers. Neither plastic nor glass is heat-resistant, but they do not need to be. The fuel burns from the center outward, and the unburned portion of it protects the wall from heat until nearly all the fuel is gone...