Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dreams into Reality. In the nation's reaction to those chilling beeps the impulse to applaud a mighty scientific achievement soon froze in the rigors of the cold war. The Red satellite was a milestone in history, a giant step toward the conquest of interplanetary space. But it was also a Communist achievement with serious implications for the West that the Communists themselves made clear. Cold-war propaganda rang in the Russian announcement: "The present generation will witness how the freed and conscious labor of the people of the new socialist society turns even the most daring...
...called the Pentagon a "five-sided doghouse," upset the military convention of equating rank with intelligence by remarking: "I haven't noticed it made a man any smarter to put another star on his shoulder." Asked what was said at a conference with the President, Wilson nodded toward the White House and said: "This is not my dunghill. Anything to be announced, somebody else ought to announce...
Kolakowski then attacks the sacred Marxist dogma of historical determinism. History is not predictable, he insists. This destroys the basis of the Soviet demand for blind obedience on the ground that whatever the party bosses decide to do is part of society's inevitable movement toward the overthrow of capitalism...
Radcliffe has collected approximately $2,132,000 toward its $10 million fund drive as of Oct. 1, Mr. John P. Halstead, Director of the Development Fund, disclosed this week...
...difference between them. Dr. Gordon believes that the protein that coats them may not be identical. At any rate, the X and Y sperms behave differently when a gentle electric current is passed through a solution in which they are suspended. Under favorable circumstances, the X (female) sperms move toward the positive anode, and the Y (male) sperms move toward the negative cathode...