Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japan, July 23 on what seemed to be a routine mission to observe North Vietnamese naval activity in the Gulf of Tonkin. Stopping at Taiwan, she took aboard a "black box," about the size of a moving van, crammed with electronic gear, and about a dozen new men to tend its innards. What was it for? Defense Secretary Robert McNamara insisted at first that the equipment "consisted in essence" of normal radio receivers that gave the ship "added capacity" to detect indications of possible attack. In testimony released at week's end, however, he admitted that, far from being...
Just as exaggerated as Carmichael, thinks Smith, is "the credibility gap," which he calls "one of the most distorting oversimplifications of the time." The President, says Smith, has to make judgments on facts that may be only partially known. "Yet we tend to call it calculated deception if he does not instantly provide conclusive facts and admit failure. If he does not keep a frozen consistency, he is held to be lying. No government ever has been run that way and none ever will...
...Swarowsky, conducting is "the art of the little movement," and the wrist-not the arm-is the key. Since most young conductors tend to weave and wave like hysterical herons, he takes drastic steps to restrict them to wrist movements. In practice sessions with the Academy's student orchestra, he makes them stand still and beat time only with the right hand, keeping the arm tied to a chair or held out stiffly in front of them. He teaches that the conductor is "a necessary evil" who can be crucial to the preparation and rehearsal of a score...
...asserted his theory of the University as an instrument of social change through its individuals, while the Council members pleaded for its use as a corporate social instrument. Stanley Hoffmann expressed the Council's position best when he said that the "rules of the game" which the University upholds tend to preserve the status...
...other high-frequency plaintext vowels, a, i and o, tend to avoid one another. A contact chart would show that three of the most common letters in the ciphertext -O, U and A-are the most mutually exclusive. OA appears twice, OU once, and UO, UA, AO and AU not at all. But NU appears five times in the cryptogram. It happens that the most frequent English vowel diagraph is ea. Thus it is a good bet that U = a. Similarly, since the combination io is most frequent among the three dissident vowels in English, assume that it is represented...