Word: spectacularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon as Johnson reached Honolulu, White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers, returning from a scouting trip of Asia, reported the unsettling news that many people anticipated spectacular developments at this week's seven-nation conference. Hastily, the President wrote some cautionary lines into his arrival speech. "We do not expect to pull any rabbits out of any hats at Manila," he said. "We know that the greatest weapons in Viet Nam are patience and unity...
Whatever the subjects were, they were discussed in quiet voices. Even the space spectacular at Baikonur, the Soviet missile site deep in Central Asia, was a bit sotto voce. Instead of the multinational, six-man lunar shot that some observers had predicted, the Russians showed their guests the launch of a radio-and-TV-relay satellite named Molniya (Lightning). About the only clue from the Moscow summit was a negative one: in the list of slogans promulgated last week for the 49th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, a key phrase was missing. For the first time since 1918, the Soviets...
Hammond went high in the air to tip one hard shot over the goal, and made an equally spectacular deflection on a low, hard bullet aimed at the lower left corner by right halfback Bil Smoyer. The Crimson captain came up with 8 clutch saves in the fourth quarter and 17 overall in his best performance to date...
...other orchestra. The town of Columbus, Ind. (pop. 27,500), has a church and bank designed by Eero Saarinen, a school by San Francisco's John Carl Warnecke and a town library being designed by New York's I. M. Pei. And Saarinen's most spectacular building, the John Deere headquarters, stands on a wide sweep of lawns in Moline...
...view at night was spectacular. From offshore, the 8-in. guns of the cruiser St. Paul flashed out barrages of shells up and down the enemy lines. U.S. warplanes, dropping parachute flares that hung in the sky like chandeliers, swooped in on their targets with bombs and bright orange seas of napalm. From the far distance, across the DMZ in the panhandle of North Viet Nam, came the winks and streaks of antiaircraft fire aimed at American jets blasting the enemy's supply dumps. On a knoll less than two miles from the zone, the Communists have remilitarized...