Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story's end, Conway glimpses the fact that his inheritance is not all debilitating humbug. From father he has at least unwittingly acquired an urge to be of service. And, in a world of increasingly measured motives and sternly allotted psychological pigeonholes, he can not shake off an India-given sense of the mystery and the marvelous confusion of the world. The Birds of Paradise is a rare literary bird, a novel that in a short space re-creates a man's lifetime. Using exotic backgrounds, it manages to say something useful about growing up-a process that...
...statistic in a confidential report prepared for the Federal Aviation Agency was enough to shake even the most seasoned air traveler: during the average 24 hours, eight near misses occur between planes in flight over the U.S. A near miss means that two planes came so close that they would have collided if one pilot or the other had not detected the danger and taken action to escape...
...colleagues found that they could study the role of light without being bothered by the other chemical processes that take place in the normal plant cell. After tedious experiment, they decided that when green plant pigment (chlorophyll) is struck by sunlight its molecules become so excited that they shake loose some electrons. And those electrons eventually help to form some of the basic chemical substances necessary for photosynthesis...
Powerhouse Performance. In small Pierre, S. Dak. (pop. 10,500), Kennedy paid his respects to welcoming officials-then broke for the airport fence to shake at least 200 hands among some 2,500 people pressing to see him. He was in South Dakota, ostensibly, to help dedicate a new 595,000-kw. Oahe Dam powerhouse. But the real reason for his presence was right at Kennedy's elbow: Democrat George McGovern, South Dakota Congressman from 1957 to 1961, Kennedy's Food for Peace director until last month, now a candidate for the U.S. Senate. McGovern, running neck...
...lives of Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni) a successful young novelist; Lidia, his wife; and Tina (Monica Vitti), 19-year old daughter of a fantastically wealthy industrialist. Mostly it is the story of Lidia's attempt to tell her husband that he should still love her, and his attempt to shake off the lethargy that popular success as a writer has brought...