Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although hollow predictions seem to characterize the six-year search for a second-stage arms accord, Warnke's optimistic assessment may be accurate. The bulk of SALT II does appear ready for signing. The draft of the resolved portions runs more than 50 pages. Both sides have settled the central issue, agreeing to limit their strategic arsenals to 2,250 weapons systems at least until 1985. These ceilings will require the Soviets to scrap about 300 aging rockets and bombers. The U.S. will not have to make any cuts, since its strategic weapons now total...
...notes. "Yes, sir," said Farber. Replied the judge angrily: "You and only you, Mr. Farber, and that superior being you must address yourself and your conscience to, know whether you have withheld something from the trial court and the jury which would have been of aid in the search for truth." Then, because the trial was over except for the jury's verdict, Trautwein released Farber from jail and suspended the contempt penalties against him and the Times...
Just in case the Nobel Committee should be accused of being precipitate?peace, after all, is not quite at hand?it issued a citation reminding the world that its new laureates still had a long road to travel in their search for brotherhood. The purpose of the awards, said the committee, was "not only to honor actions already performed in the service of peace, but also to encourage further efforts to work out practical solutions." Both the winners had awaited the announcement with mounting excitement, and both pronounced themselves delighted...
...head of Princeton's physics department, Atomic Scientist Marvin ("Murph") Goldberger, 56, was so happy in his work that he turned away presidential-search committees from a number of universities. That was before he was asked to run the California Institute of Technology. Says Goldberger, who was formally inaugurated last week as the fourth president of 87-year-old Caltech: "As a scientist, I felt I had no choice but to take it. This is an incredible place...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙American Caesar, William Manchester ∙In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙ Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ∙ Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Gulag Archipelago III. Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen...