Word: shading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Western Kremlinologists felt that the revised goals were within reach; others, that they were still a shade too high. Either way, they underscored the tremendous economic problems that Moscow faces. With 45% of the American G.N.P. and a population 20% larger than that of the U.S., Russia must shoulder a heavy arms burden, support costly space research, and at the same time meeting the growing and impatient expectations of 232 million people...
With temperatures as high as 110° and endless undulating stretches of parched sand, Southern California's deserts have been no man's land. By day, the only tracks were made by rabbits and horned lizards seeking shade; by night, the only noise was the sound of coyotes howling. Now the dunes reverberate with the sound of engines rev ving and backfiring. These are the echoes of the desert dragster, practitioner of the West's newest, and hottest, fad - desert drag and dune racing...
...obvious from the U.S. Senate press gallery back in 1959 that those 100-odd characters milling about and orating down below were just searching for some author to package them up in a novel. So Newsman Allen Drury wrote Advise and Consent. Of course there was a sequel-A Shade of Difference-but now the troubles have started for Novelist Drury; he has begun to write about ordinary people. They are the nice upper-middle-class inhabitants of Greenmont, Calif., a summer colony 6,000 feet up in the Sierras. Greenmont is slightly more exclusive than the U.S. Senate; residential...
...shotputter's, and his fist looks like the business end of a sledge hammer. His fingers, whose tips are cushioned from years of "cleaning the piano's teeth," are spatula-shaped; the all-important little finger is as long as the index finger, which is just a shade shorter than the middle finger. Thus, with the extension of his long thumbs, he can encompass a twelve-note spread on the keyboard. Most pianists are happy if they can handle a tenth...
...basic package for the year beginning July 1, covering military and economic aid, comes to $3.39 billion, a shade under Johnson's original request for this fiscal year. This apparent economy was gained by shifting military aid to South Viet Nam to the regular Defense Department budget and charging $170 million in new health and educational-assistance projects to other agencies. In any case, it seems likely that Johnson will come back with supplemental requests after July 1, as he did last month, when he asked an extra $715 million for the current budget...