Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witch), a turreted castle with winding stairs (and "Stoop" signs for the adults), and a walk-in birdcage. In Mouseville, built to resemble a big cheese, they can study scurrying white mice, and in the Hurdy-Gurdy House, a monkey swings to music. Best of all. they can slide down a "rabbit hole" just like Alice, and walk into the mouth of a huge whale just like Jonah...
...chiefly committed to the profitable middle way-to preserving their "neutrality," at whatever cost of "principle," to keep the money flowing in from both camps. When Russia tramps down hard on its end of the balance of terror, the neutrals, like so many rings on a rod, obligingly slide down...
From the tunnel, smaller passageways slide off to the missile silos, each 165 ft. deep and 40 ft. in diameter. Other tunnels lead to the antenna silo, and to a circular power house 70 ft. below ground where four generators purr out power enough for a city of 5,000 people...
...club, blackouts had to serve in lieu of the novel's sexual bouts. The evening's one unforgettable moment occurred by accident. During the cloying scene wherein the lovers (Jeanne Moody as Lady Chatterley, Walter Brown as Gamekeeper Mellors) decorate one another with garlands, Mellors started to slide out of bed and stopped short, paralyzed and fluffing his lines. In a play whose major theme is that bodies should not be embarrassing, his panic was caused by the discovery that his shirt was out of reach...
Gobbled Gains. The ambitious scheme faces vast obstacles. India's population, growing faster than the statisticians' slide rules had calculated, will reach 492 million by 1966, gobbling up many gains while it grows. Plan III provides $105 million for birth-control programs (including mobile sterilization units), but the $1,550,000,000 budgeted for "general health improvement" may frustrate the family planners by further lowering the death rate. At best, five years from now the annual per capita income of India's millions will be only $81, and their food intake 17.5 oz. per person...