Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parliamentary lunch in Wellington, the President spoke of Viet Nam. "It is tragic that this war, this war of terror and bloodshed, must be fought before Asia can be fully free to wage the other war-against hunger and disease," he said. He put a question to the leaders of North Viet Nam: "What can be gained by continuing a war you cannot win? What can be lost by joining with your brothers in Southeast Asia in a different kind of war-a war for human dignity, a war for health and enlightenment, a war for your children and generations...
...consist of the mere "impersonal and commercial distribution" of contraceptives. It called for the relaxing of antiabortion laws and found that masturbation may provide a legitimate means of "relief of physical tensions," though it is never more than an "impoverished substitute for the real thing." Finally, the report spoke with charity of attempts to rehabilitate four-and five-letter words, such as those used by D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover and by Wayland Young in Eros Denied; it advocated accepting "neutral terms like penis, vagina and ejaculation" in the universal English vernacular...
Near the output end, each sample drops into a tube on the rim of a colorimeter that looks like a twelve-spoke wheel. A powerful light flashes a beam through the tubes, and photo-electric cells measure the intensity of the transmitted light. A computer converts these readings into values for the pen to draw on the chart paper (see diagram...
...surge of new nationalism throughout Asia is aimed at precisely that second challenge. "The young Filipino looks around him," says one old Manila hand, "and remembers that his grandfather spoke Spanish; yet his parents and he speak English better than Tagalog. He sees the conglomeration of Spanish and native architecture, spruced up with American modern. His system of government is tailored after that of the U.S.; yet he does not feel truly American. So he stands there, bewildered, asking himself: 'What am I? Do I belong to Asia, the Pacific? Or am I closer to the West than either...
...moments later, the Senators Kennedy drove up to the entrance. Both were rushed from an afternoon political rally in Post Office Square, where they spoke in behalf of Massachusetts Democratic candidates. This was the brothers' first joint political appearance of the 1966 campaign...