Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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College students, already lost in a swirl of conflicting draft and reserve programs, can take some faint measure of hope from the fact that the Universal Military Training plan which has just been submitted to Congress will almost surely not affect them. But those interested in the nation's struggle to get an adequate Army in a hurry will notice that UMT as proposed to Congress is no solution...
...plump, darkly pretty young woman who accompanied him wore a similar costume. For 15 minutes, His Majesty sat in massive silence. An aide brought him a newspaper. He scanned the headlines, threw the paper on the floor and jumped to his feet. Within a few minutes, in a swirl of salutes and a swishing of Cadillacs, the young couple was off to a cocktail party...
...check their results, the astronomers calculated how much radio energy is sent out by the Milky Way galaxy, another vast swirl of billions of stars, of which the sun is a part. Then they calculated what this radio source would look like to their radio telescope if it were as far away as the Andromeda nebula. The calculations showed that it would look much the same. This went far to prove what astronomers had long suspected: the Milky Way galaxy is a "twin...
Such beliefs lead him to take an indulgent view of Kavanagh, a lusty fishmonger who has murdered a servant girl in a swirl of passion. They also lead Ezra to seduce Romilly, the sister of his friend Father Mellowes, simply because he wants to "wipe some of that look of innocence off her face." In long conversations, Ezra and Father Mellowes conclude that the greatest human sin is indifference and that Christ "liked anyone who let themselves be carried away...
...trick of squaring the new U.S. anti-Communist law (TIME, Oct. 2) with hemisphere policy kept the State Department in a swirl last week. One provision of the law requires State to refuse visas to "totalitarians." Did that mean supporters of the strong-arm regimes which run such good neighbors as Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Peru or Venezuela...