Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Authority, and by his own disinterest, he did not look upon the unparalleled industrial complex between Washington and New York City. Instead, he set his own course through the serried ranks of U.S. diplomats, businessmen, civic brasshats and movie actresses, as if in search of more Marxist cliches to take home. Even when his hosts drove him through towns with tall white steeples, through prosperous farms, friendly campuses and towering skyscrapers, he barely bothered to look out the window. At week's end in San Luis Obispo, Calif., he turned the Marxist cliche around by complaining that the American...
...right wing, the long, black, needle-nosed X-15 dropped free at 38,000 ft. In its instrument-crammed cockpit at that instant, Test Pilot Scott Crossfield started his rocket engines and flashed ahead on the first powered flight of the experimental plane that is designed to take man to the edge of space...
...switch military manpower and funds into raising Soviet living standards. But in blasting off so crudely from his U.N. launching pad, Nikita had displayed a brute cynicism that repelled responsible statesmen everywhere. "It sounds so easy," said an Asian delegate to the U.N. "I think he must take us for morons...
...liberal and conservative, overwhelmingly supported and applauded the bold initiative. And the dread specter of right-wing revolt all but vanished even in Algeria itself, where diehard French ultras had warned, on the eve of De Gaulle's statement, that "hundreds of thousands of Europeans and Moslems" would "take to the maquis" if self-determination was offered to Algeria...
...workshop leaders, William Alfred, associate professor of English, plans to raise from eight to twelve the number of freshmen in his "informal seminar in literature and writing." Applications for Alfred's group, which will take the place of Gen Ed A, originally number 60, and he will chose the final dozen from 20 still under consideration...