Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world. James Jones contributed shorts-shucking, which follows halter-dropping in sequence. There are specialists in the texture and surface temperature of the body, ranging in the first case from marble to velvet; in the second from hot to cool, which is partly seasonal; in summer fiction they tend to be cool. There are also body-geography and sexual-topology students-erotic spelunkers of a sort. Since the modified screenplay distantly related to From Here to Eternity, fornication in the surf has become the desideratum, so that the brief tussle in the sea foam has now become a standard image...
...sufficiently serious to merit federal spending on socially useful projects. The depression constitutes an opportunity not only to ameliorate various social sore spots, but also to provide a solid foundation for an expanding economy. Injunctions from the White House about increasing both confidence and consumption only tend to obscure the problems of the recession and to postpone the eventual reassessment...
...population. As before, the doctors wanted more money, and few healthy Viennese disputed their demands. The hospital physicians, who average only $80 a month,* have dickered for eight months for raises that would give them $6.40 more. When officials offered only $3.20, they walked out. To tend such urgent cases as childbirth, the strikers left 300 doctors on duty round the clock, promised full care in any emergency. Veterinarians promptly mounted a sympathy strike that left Vienna's vast poodle population unpampered...
...Providence, invented a teaching technique now referred to reverently as The Method. It consists chiefly of one precept: under no circumstances is anything but the language under study spoken in class. A corollary: for the first few lessons, all instruction is verbal-otherwise, Charles Berlitz explains, students tend to transpose pronunciation values in languages sharing the same alphabet...
...that came originally from the sun and are held high above the earth by the earth's magnetic field. The belt may extend outward for two earth radii (8,000) miles before it disappears. Van Allen suspects that the supply of plasma fluctuates a good deal; the particles tend to leak down to the earth's atmosphere and are replenished from time to time by fresh particles shot into space by disturbances...