Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unrealistic." Hence the U.S. needs new, small, clean nuclear weapons for limited wars. It needs them even more for defensive anti-missile missiles. All these weapons have to be tested to be proved. And stopping the tests, whether inspected or not, would be "an extremely dangerous thing . . . We can stay ahead only by running ahead...
...boycotting the Ljubljana meeting. In isolation but still firmly in control of his own show, Tito last week allowed himself to be unanimously re-elected President of Yugoslavia for a third term of four years. In a speech before Parliament, the 65-year-old Tito tried hard to stay on his tightrope between East and West; he followed the Soviet line on ending nuclear bomb tests, and, in the next breath, praised the U.S. for the economic and military aid it has sent to Yugoslavia...
...student type, he feels he should be having a worthwhile extracurricular life and isn't. Predominant in all these people is the awareness that one can have only four years at Harvard. They often leave at mid-term, because they think if they stay for finals, they'll lost the term completely...
...temporary retirement was well-traveled Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest and the South Pole, who withdrew from a proposed lecture tour in Britain, as he put it, "to stay home with Mum and the kids"-for a year-in New Zealand. In the Hillary future: physiological endurance tests in his old freezing grounds, the Himalayas, possibly another Antarctic expedition...
...authors, who apparently assume that children are going to stay put in the towns where they are first taught, make another assumption much favored by the educationists-that "learning for learning's sake" is of scant value, and that only "life purposes," i.e., "needs of hunger, physical comfort, the desire for expression and social integration," can properly lead a child to learn. Is the purpose of study to beguile children or to educate future adults? "Why dramatize 'The Three Bears' in Spanish or French? ... In general, such language learning has little immediate social value. Children would derive...