Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid the Alien Corn Sir: I do hope someone tells the visiting Soviet farm delegates about the agricultural subsidies here. It would be just too much to send them away thinking that all this came from untrammeled, unsubsidized free enterprise...
Stimulated by such philosophy, the people of I Love Me decide that the best way to stave off Odioso's threatened invasion is to send a kind of Point Four delegation to We Hate You to convert the people to democracy. The happy islanders sing...
...Snapshots. After such reversals, the time called for heroic measures, but not quite so heroic as Niko's returning to Greece himself. He decided to send Roula. Last February, Commissar Roula slipped across the border with her lover's instructions to reorganize the underground and bring back information on all the key figures in Greece. Niko's trusted old bodyguard was with her. Last week Athens announced that the two had been captured, and the Boss's Wife charged with espionage. In her pockets they found wads of drachmas and six well-thumbed photographs of five...
...Canadian arctic, LIFE Photographer Fritz Goro and Reporter James Goode worked for seven weeks in silent isolation, photographing a corner of the world few men had ever seen before, where the weather extremes far surpass the farthest reaches of the arctic. Their radio could receive messages but could not send. Movement was so difficult that it once took them five days to reach a photographic objective barely ten miles from their two-tent camp. For another five days, rising water in the spring thaw completely cut them off from land. As their provisions dwindled, they lived on canned macaroni alone...
Scientists are interested in these immediate prospects, but they are even more interested in the probability that the satellites, moving in territory that has never been traversed, will send information that no one has dreamed of. This is the stuff out of which new branches of science are built...