Word: types
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town, and with General Maxwell Taylor on his way to Washington for consultations, the show began. For four days demonstrators, streaming out of the National Buddhist Center, again turned Saigon into a battleground, hurling barrages of rocks and clubbing out numbered policemen. After the rioters threw seven Viet Cong-type concussion grenades, a paratroop officer emptied his pistol into a mob, killing a 15-year-old boy. The Buddhists issued an ultimatum demanding that the army and police keep hands off the demonstrators, and that Huong be forced down...
Radcliffe officials have expressed concern over problems such as public necking. "The girls just have to learn that this type of public display attracts all the worst kinds of perverts," said Mrs. Deane A. Lord, director of the Radcliffe News Office...
...ones that made convenience foods popular in the U.S.: growing incomes, less domestic help, more women away at work, changing tastes. Many foreigners, of course, do not take to such American gastronomic institutions as peanut butter and TV dinners, and some are still wary of canned goods. But American-type fruit juice, instant desserts, frozen chicken, ketchup, canned and packaged soups and precooked rice have won a prominent place on foreign shelves...
...years, the loudest noises in the aerospace business have been the rumble of liquid-fueled boosters blasting spacecraft into orbit, the sharper roar of solid-fuel military missiles climbing into their long trajectories, and the continuing, wordy battles between the promoters of each type. Now, back of the racket, can be heard the insistent voice of still another competitor in the rocketry race-the hybrid that manufactures its power by combining liquid oxidant with solid fuel. Detractors may scoff that the hybrid combines all the dangers and difficulties of both solids and liquids. Its champions are confident that...
Like many another existentialist-type thinker, Fowles combines a cosmic pessimism with a reformer's drive to improve the world. Less interesting and less moving on such topics as cybernetics and birth control, he is nonetheless eminently sensible, and his strictures aimed against all dogmatic camps are shrewd: "A Christian says, 'If all were good, all would be happy.' A socialist says, 'If all were happy, all would be good.' A mystic says, 'If all were like me, happiness and goodness would not matter.' A humanist says, 'Happiness and goodness need more...