Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack on Husan was less a guerrilla raid than a full-scale military operation. Though carried out while Nasser was preoccupied with Suez, and their own government overwhelmingly preponderant on its borders, the Husan affair made many Israelis fearful of the consequences. Said a Jerusalem butcher: "Eight Jewish...
...galoot that it is impossible to believe that a sensitive girl like Deborah would ever have married him. John Kerr puts remarkably little imagination into the part of the boy; it .often reads much better than he plays. it. Deborah Kerr, on the other hand, is excellent: always in scale, always in key. And Norma Crane does some wonderful flobbing around the screen as the slavey and general grab bag at the local hash house. 1984. (Holiday; Columbia). Things to come, as George Orwell saw them in his clever antitotalitarian tract, written in 1949, have assumed a horrifying political shape...
...nation's prosperity spread all the way from the bottom to the top. Unemployment was down to a bedrock 103,000, and workers were hard to find, notably for domestic service, construction trades and logging. At the other end of the scale, corporate profits were up, and business investment for the first six months stood a fat 48.6% above...
This summer, however, three members of the Russian Research Center published a report entitled "How the Soviet System Works." It is based on the first large-scale study of attitudes and life-experiences of Soviet citizens--some 3,000 of them--and was conducted by the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, with the support of the U.S. Air Force. It is the first scholarly approach to the subject...
...restlessly, pouring millions into U.S. universities and colleges and especially into Negro colleges, spurring research into oceanography and astronomy, e.g., the 200-in. telescope at Mount Palomar. broadening out from his closed-in Baptist childhood to support fervently the Protestant Interchurch World Movement, to help out increasingly on large-scale Catholic and Jewish projects...