Word: scatteredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thai Nguyen was Hanoi's much-publicized pride and joy, symbolizing its hopes for an industrialized future. Built with Chinese aid, equipment and technicians, its 48 large buildings were scattered over nearly three square miles. It employed 200 engineers, 2,000 technicians, and some 12,000 workers on three...
In those days, too, he frequently sat as TIME's managing editor for two or three weeks at a stretch. One M.E. described these visitations as "like a strong wind that blew fresh air through the office but also scattered the papers into hopeless confusion. There were usually two...
Plenty of Congressmen thought that the heights attained by Adam were pretty dizzying, nonetheless. Missouri Republican Thomas Curtis denounced Powell for "embezzlement and forgery, not to mention such things as scofflaw actions." To objections from scattered Representatives that the censure proposal would constitute "annihilation by humiliation," South Carolina Republican Albert...
To guard against frequent subversion attempts from the North, Park maintains a 600,000-man army along the 151-mile, tense demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas; they are backed up by 50,000 U.S. troops. Park has also sealed the border area with a high wooden fence and hundreds...
No Daylight. Within his sealed capsule, Hefner loses all sense of time and season. He loves the night. By keeping his shades always drawn, he has effectively banished daylight from his life. He eats when he pleases?a kitchen staff is on duty 24 hours a day. But then he...