Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political leaders of the West-were worried lest they raise false hopes that all differences can be settled by a meeting at the summit. Vatican observers said hopefully that "a first and significant step has been taken," and Pope John saw the meeting going "only as far as the threshold of great problems." A cautious spokesman for the Church of England said, "His Holiness expressed to the Archbishop his great desire to increase brotherly feelings among all men, and especially among all Christians." But as the Archbishop had observed in advance: "Talking trivialities is in itself a portent of great...
...have a party. When Lady Churchill and his doctors vetoed the inspiration, Britain's most eminent citizen took it quite well, spent most of the day in bed accepting personal greetings from friends, children and grandchildren, and shoveling through the blizzard of congratulations that fell upon the threshold of his London town house in Hyde Park Gate. At the family luncheon table, Sir Winston presided over a mighty repast of oysters, turtle soup, roast pheasant, champagne and all the trimmings, plus an 85-lb. birthday cake doused with his favorite brandy. Churchill's birthday moved New York Times...
...experience a disturbing sensation, as if their eyes, in order to focus, were being forced to cross. As the cutter fades one image from the screen and fades another in, the eyes instinctively attempt to focus on the departing and the arriving images, and the strain sometimes approaches the threshold of pain. On the whole, the experience is entertaining, and probably will not hurt anybody who has not had to go through it since 1955. In any case, it is always possible, if the eyes protest too much, to slip off the goggles and see two pictures for the price...
...system, which will soon be familiar to air travelers, is remarkably simple. Twelve powerful lights are arranged in groups of three around the threshold of the runway. In front of each lamp is a filter with a red upper half and a clear lower half. In front of the filter is a two-inch horizontal slit. When an observer is above the center of the beam, the lamp looks white; in the middle it changes to pink, and in the lower half...
...laughing, hand-crushing candidate was cheered and confettied practically to the threshold of his suite, where he prepared for a dinner in his honor that evening.... Newsletter of Harvard Students for Nixon, received at the CRIMSON yesterday at 4 p.m. Mr. Nixon arrived in Boston yesterday...