Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similar misapprehension about the nature of a character seems to underlie Natalie Bider's Diana, the chaste teenager with whom Bertram thinks he is sleeping (while in fact Helen has substituted herself.) Diana's shift from a scatterbrained ingenue to a wordly wise young woman seems less the product of growth than of failure to choose one consistent interpretation of the role...
While supporting the Administration on Viet Nam, the two scholars took issue with Washington's fundamental approach to China. The U.S. should shift, Barnett suggested, from "containment plus isolation of Peking to containment without isolation," working simultaneously to block Chinese expansionism-as in Viet Nam-and to bring the Chinese into the international community, particularly the United Nations. Peking-like any psychotic patient-would resist therapy with every obnoxious means at its disposal. Nonetheless, said Barnett, "initiatives on our part are clearly required if we are to work, however slowly, toward the long-term goal of a more stable...
...million to more than $1 billion. Alternate port and supply facilities are readily available through the Low Countries and at North German ports. The U.S. and Canadian fighter groups could well be based in Britain; Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg are likely spots for relocating the command headquarters. The shift would be expensive and annoying, but the defense of Europe-including France-would ultimately be little affected, as De Gaulle well knows and in fact admits in wanting to remain an alliance member, enabling him to have NATO's defense for France and kick...
Available next week throughout the U.S. for the easily disposed of price of $1 will be Scott Paper Co.'s easily disposable paper dress. Made of a flexible triple-ply, fire-resistant paper reinforced with rayon scrim, the dress is a sleeveless shift with two pockets, comes in four sizes and a choice of design-gay bandanna print or eye-arresting...
...school English teacher to write her book. "I thought teachers would find it to be true," she says. "But I had no idea it would sweep the country." Now much in demand as a lecturer at teachers' conventions, Miss Kaufman lives in a Park Avenue apartment, likes the shift from classroom to celebrity, finds it difficult to get back to her new duties as an assistant English professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She also enjoys the money-at least...