Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last June, 5,000,000 Egyptians certified his dictatorship by casting a 99.9% majority in "free" elections. Years ago he wrote a friend: "I really believe that imperialism is playing a one-card game in order to threaten only. If ever it knew that there were Egyptians ready to shed their blood and to meet force by force, it would have given way like a harlot." Nasser is a counterpuncher who has won a number of prelims by meeting blow with counterblow. All things considered, he has come far; the question is, how much farther...
...After giving a battery of tests to 60,000 Oklahoma high-school students in the first state talent survey of its kind, Chicago's Science Research Associates shed some additional light on the nation's shortage of scientists. Of the 60,000, the S.R.A. found 7,121 to be so scientifically gifted as to be "among the very elite in America's high schools." Unfortunately, a good fourth of the talented never bothered to get good grades, and only half of the scientifically gifted are expected to go on to college...
...eyed and handsome, protected, for the time being, by his seconds and five skirling bagpipers from Canada's 48th Highlanders. Next came Archie, his entourage six uniformed U.S. airmen and his only music the raucous booing of a home-town crowd. As Archie stepped through the ropes to shed his cerise-and-green cape along with his shimmering black-and-gold robe, his natty mustache and carefully trimmed imperial chin tuft quivered with scorn for the ill-mannered fans. He was more than ready...
...nameless holy man, the intimate of eagles and snakes, who radiates well-being and gives out serenity "as a flower gives its scent." Trouble begins when a group of Vaishnavas start to build a religious establishment on one of the islands. After years of privation the holy man has shed the "creed of any religion but he believed as the Hindus do that God is in all things, animate and inanimate, that all things are in God." Because he knows the religious project will destroy the living creatures on the islands, he declares war on the interlopers...
...then) looks like a country family doctor, dresses with the casualness of a young college prof, prefers to live clear of the cities, in the rolling countryside of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (pop. 2,100), 18 miles from downtown Detroit. His headquarters is a simply constructed, often cluttered office shed he designed for himself, just two minutes' drive from his home over winding country roads. Even with an office staff of 43, Saarinen's is a small operation by comparison with the major U.S. architectural organizations, e.g., Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's 700 employees. Says Saarinen, who likes...