Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triangles throughout history, Russia's recent flirtation with the West has resulted in jealousy and political temper-tantrums on the part of China. The atrocities in Tibet, squabbles with India, denunciations of the U.A.R. and Yugoslavia are the embarrassing and peevish actions of a self-righteous and somewhat neglected power...
Russian became more than a power to reckon with; it was a nation that Americans needed desperately to study and to understand. Academic circles realized that American scholarship in the Russian field had been sporadic, disorganized and incomplete. And thus, in the spring of 1947, the Carnegie Corporation proposed the establishment of a program in Russian studies which would lay additional stress on the often neglected areas of psychology and anthropology...
Since DNAs appear to control heredity (they may be identical with genes), the ability to synthesize biologically active forms may give man new power over the production of living things. And since RNAs are essential to growth, mastery of them might supply the answer to cancer, which is uncontrolled growth. Both modest men, neither Ochoa nor Kornberg would make such claims. Said Ochoa: "Now that I have won this honor, I guess I'll have to work harder...
...United States. Since as much as $8 billion more per year would go to schools, "the educational committees of the House and Senate will have every reason to examine in detail the curricula and school organization" of the institutions given aid. Such committees, he warns, may be composed of "power-seeking politicians...
...Indians, however, found their V-formation much more suited to the mud. Behind power blocking by Horschman and guard Phil Clark, Crouthamel's cross-bucks and Al Rozycki's inside reverses accounted for most of the yardage in their early scoring drive...