Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scarcely a single, clear-cut, concerted decision was taken by the leading Allies (Britain, France, Japan and the U.S.) during six months (March through August 1918) of diplomatic maneuverings leading up to joint troop landings on Russian soil. Author Kennan makes plain that the initial urge to intervene was based...
Despite Russian technological advances, President Pusey in his annual report for 1956-57 decried efforts to "embark on a frenetic, concentrated effort to produce tens or, hopefully, even hundreds of thousands more scientists and engineers."
The Wright Brothers Lecture was the latest honor for jovial Bachelor Allen, 47, a dedicated NACA scientist for 21 years. When Allen suggested in 1952 that the heating problem caused by the re-entry of a ballistic missile into the earth's atmosphere might be solved by a blunt...
For the gentry disporting themselves in the Kremlin, 40 years of Communist power had provided all those things and more. But, as always happens when the gentry are having a ball, the kitchen help and field hands were harder pressed than ever. In the mines and factories of Russia'...
Fair Game (by Sam Locke) concerns a very young, fetching and modest-budgeted divorcee who comes to New York to study at City College. She is soon modeling size tens in the garment center as well, with half the members of the garment trade making very forward passes. But she...