Word: statically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professor Paul A. Samuelson, author of a popular economics text and developer of static and dynamic economic theory, was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics yesterday...
...fiddled with the dials on his short-wave set in Essex last week, a young British ham radio operator heard a familiar call signal from a Middle East station. "This is JY-one," the deep, British-accented voice could be heard over the crackle of the static. "Hussein on the mike." With that, the beleaguered King of Jordan proceeded to discuss the situation outside his well-fortified Al-Hummar Palace on the outskirts of Amman. "We get a bit of blasting here," said Hussein. "It is a sad time. But we are putting our house in order and soon...
...Hampshire Democrat Thomas J. McIntyre reported a telephone con- versation with a "highly placed source in Vienna [who] made it very clear to me that the success of the SALT negotiations rests almost exclusively on our not remaining static in our ABM pos ture." Just before the vote, Republican Whip Robert Griffin bore down hard er on the issue: "If this amendment should carry and if the SALT talks should thereafter collapse, I would not want to be in the position of those who will vote today against the President...
...Static Electricity. The firm found a replacement for Diana ("someone who could live in the clean and wholesome way these girls have lived") in Jean Terrell, a soulful but unknown lead vocalist. Then it invested $100,000 in Diana's solo act, $60,000 of which went for elaborate clothes and new arrangements. Without Diana, though, the Supremes sound more homogenized than ever, and audiences have to memorize their wigs to remember which is which...
Diana, meanwhile, is still all static electricity. She leaps in and out of an assortment of costumes, dances from time to time with two smiling male partners, and makes her way through a repertory of tunes borrowed from the likes of the Beatles, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee. She even sings a medley of old Supremes hits, but she seems to get through them very quickly...