Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts, and they wanted to learn more-they already know a little -about what happens to a man's mind and body when he goes without sleep. The medicine men, lured by the scent of big data, moved in on the ballyhoo of a Times Square stunt, set up an elaborate laboratory in the Hotel Astor, poked and pried and quizzed Disk Jockey Peter Tripp for 200 sleepless hours. It will take months to sift the stacks of data they gathered. Tripp gave his verdict the moment he was saved by the clock: "You can't stay awake...
...after his lionlike complaints, the President offered lamblike recommendations. He urged Congress to abandon the parity formula-based on farm prices and farm costs in 1910-14, good years for U.S. farmers-and let Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson set price supports between 75% and 90% of the average market price in the preceding three years. As an alternative, if Congress could not bring itself to discard the parity idea, Ike suggested that Benson get authority to set support prices as low as 60% of parity...
When Sihanouk visited Red China last August, he was similarly impressed with Communist drive, dedication and determination. While he rules, Cambodia must be regarded as uncertain; but the barometer is currently set fair...
Russian rockets have ended "capitalism's encirclement," proclaimed New Theorist Khrushchev, as new evidence of the old line that "socialism will conquer peacefully and fully." Then he set out to reverse the 20th Party Congress' approval of Tito's "separate roads to socialism." All Communist parties must follow "one general road pointed out by Marxism-Leninism," he said, but in building socialism they may, as the Chinese did, adopt their "own peculiar forms," and proceed at different tempos...
...when you see a slickly-staged job of Shadow of a Gunman, you wonder whether Sean O'Casey invokes the world's enduring sentimentality for the Irish to obscure the fact that he dwells on an incident that seems trivial, an incident that is sadly pale when set beside the heroic achievements in human terror of which people have proven themselves so capable...