Word: run
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words of Columbus Iselin: "The cold war and the scientific effort run parallel much of the time. They're both geared toward our learning more. Each has a different motivation. One is survival, and the other is curiosity...
...great Gulf Stream, which exports tropical water to northern Europe. With the aid of loran, the new Atlantis surveys proved that it is not a wide, steady stream, but a jet that whips from side to side over hundreds of miles and sometimes curls into eddies. It may run fast or slow or backward, and only the general sum of its motion carries warm water to Europe...
SOCIAL SECURITY FUND will run $87 million in red for fiscal year, which began July 1. Higher social security taxes, which went into effect last Jan. 1, are expected to boost fund's income over outgo, starting in 1961; fund's $1.5 billion deficit, accumulated over past three years, is scheduled to be repaid...
...years ago, alarmed at the loss of overseas markets, the Nebraskans started levying a quarter-cent-a-bushel tax on all the wheat produced and sold in their state. The funds, amplified by foreign counterpart (local currency) funds at the disposal of the Foreign Agricultural Service, were used to run wheat laboratories in Lima and New Delhi to test local grains, in the process show mills what good U.S. wheat grades to order to make more nutritious, more bakable bread. The work went over so well that Colorado and Kansas wheat growers joined in, recently formed the regional Great Plains...
They are, and it is just as well, If the little monsters were to breed, perhaps with the four-headed puns of Peter (The Tunnel of Love) De Vries, the printed word might never be the same. Still, considering the general run of summer fiction, Wallach's fable is funny enough. He tells of a soulful young swimming-pool salesman who leaves Manhattan because "inside stuffy little apartments a million parakeets mess up their cages and refuse to say an intelligent word"-a conception subtle with the flavor of Zen-Zen, the West Coast's cultural mouthwash...