Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waste of Talent. "I do not believe that the qualification standards for military service should now be lowered," McNamara told the Veterans of Foreign Wars at their 67th convention in New York City. "What I do believe is that through the application of advanced educational and medical techniques we can...
Unenforceable Rule. The committee paid no heed to minor side effects such as acne and weight gain. Even on the major effects, the pills cannot be certified as completely safe until after years of detailed study on tens of thousands of patients. But the committee felt confident enough to recommend...
The defective gene was only one of tens of thousands in each sex cell (sperm or ovum); it was recessive, meaning that whenever it was paired with a normal gene, its maleficent action was blocked. Even so, it spread so far and wide that it eventually appeared among Ashkenazic families...
The Chinese seem to feel that news, like eggs, improves with age. At any rate, the story was nine days old when it was bannered across Page One of every paper in Peking last week. CHAIR MAN MAO ENJOYS A SWIM IN THE YANGTZE, read the identical headlines. At an...
Smith and Robertson shared a number of common problems. Prototypes of a bygone era, they faced relatively young, vigorous opponents of modern mien and moderate views. Both incumbents suffered from the erosion of the Byrd machine, which has lost some of its far-right adherents to a new Conservative Party...