Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shan on the Chinese side lies the Taklamakan Desert and the lake of Lop Nor, home of the Chinese nuclear tests. Beginning about 1960, the Peking government set out to transform the desert into a fertile area. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, party cadres, middle-school graduates and intellectuals thought to be in need of "reeducation" have been sent to Sinkiang to work for the cause, and their efforts have had some results. But for the most part, Sinkiang remains a wasteland, even less developed than the Soviet lands to the north...
...that mean the offensive was about to enter a new phase of heavy fighting? Intelligence experts could not be certain. Some captured evidence pointed strongly to just that-as did a fresh shower of rocket and artillery attacks at week's end. Other evidence showed that the Communists thought they were already in the attack phase; and to confuse the picture even further, one high-ranking prisoner insisted that the present offensive is not phased at all and will last into the summer...
...characteristics of some of these planet-gods, which were thought to be actual superbeings, could be inferred from their appearance and movement. Mars' bloody color made it the martial god of war; Mercury's quick motion near the sun gave it a nervous, mercurial quality; big, bright Jupiter suggested power, success and the joviality that goes with them; bright-burning Venus, seen so often in the beauty of evening, suggested love...
...close it. If they are renewing us, it's not because they want us, but because if they don't, we might go to another net work and come back to haunt them." That may be, but even before the cen sors started snip-snipping, some viewers thought the Smothers Brothers' once excellent program was becoming a ghost of its former self...
...farm-and the oldtime farm at that. Blair had all the credentials. Back in 1888, when Blair was born, his father ran the local Grange store in Cadmus, Kans. As a child he earned 50? a day by working from sunup to sundown in the surrounding fields. He thought he hated it-the boredom, the ignorance, the poverty. "A cow path is delightful if you are out for a stroll, but not if you are trying to get somewhere," he observed later. But by the time he started to paint, he had already got somewhere, and his imagination ranged back...