Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father, John Reagan, a Willy Loman type who may not have been the world's best shoe salesman but held all records at the bar. Reagan's mother, Nelle, of Scots-English blood, was a churchly woman who taught Ronnie and his brother Neil, now 58, to read before they entered the first grade...
...startling discovery that put every motive in question and turned every word or act into its opposite, is now a universal cliche. The game of spotting Freudian slips and symbols, once chic and daring, has filtered down from the cocktail party to the corner bar. Anyone who can read seems qualified to bat around complexes, compulsions and obsessions. Pop-psych is all over the place...
...Murville sat deep in thought, his wavy white head bowed over the text of the speech he was about to deliver to the United Nations General Assembly. Behind him, Russian U.N. Representative Nikolai Fedorenko and his French opposite number, Roger Sey-doux, were engaged in eager conversation. As Couve read on, the two men behind him suddenly smiled and raised their hands-thumb to forefinger-in the universal gesture of happy agreement. Then Couve rose to demand that the U.S. make a "new move" to end the war in Viet...
...Benin, the lorries and "mammy wagons" of Ibo refugees were drawn into a frontier-style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes on the mammy wagons seemed symbolically apt. "God knows best," read one; "I shall return," promised another. But the most appropriate said: "Man must whack...
...Like protons, the furious but controllable forces of laser beams have already been used as exact surgical scalpels; at the National Institutes of Health, laser light is also being showered on cultures grown for only four hours in tiny, 2-mm. capillary tubes. The resulting scattered light can be read for presence of bacteria. Because the process is so highly accurate, the cultures do not have to be nourished for days until they grow large enough for the disease-causing microbes to be detectable. The careful placing and size of an electrical charge is the key to Peri-Start...