Word: v
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long pieces of lumber on the ocean bottom. The planking had been preserved under the mud--toredo worms eat any un-protected organic material--and uncovered with an air lift, a sort of under-water vacuum cleaner. The planks were well turned-out, and some were joined in a V with wood dowels...
...growing importance of labor-management relations has also put a premium on patience. It is perhaps significant that an expert in the field, Professor of Management Douglas V. Brown of M.I.T., who thinks that Americans are impatient generally, maintains that in labor relations they are more patient than any other people...
...have become slim bands in the wispiest of fabrics, with halter straps for bareback dresses, and low sides for bib tops. Since the bare spots change from dress to dress, the bras are flexible, come with convertible straps that crisscross every which way for one-shoulder, no-shoulder, U, V or X decolletes. Panties have shrunk to bikini briefs; petticoats begin at the hip, are a scant 16 in. from top to hem (previous length...
Conscience v. Status. The report says that most students express general satisfaction with Cal, yet even these "cannot isolate themselves from nonconformist attitudes and ideas: they react positively or negatively." The nonconformists believe that most American adults, including their teachers, are "sacrificing conscience to the quest for status" and that "a man must fight hypocrisy to live in a moral world." Yet their own obsession with "keeping cool" is also hypocritical, argues the committee. Their desire for "instant love, instant poetry, instant psychoanalysis and instant mysticism" is just a "form of escape from hard work," clothed in a "quasi-moral...
...NETHERLANDS, unique in having invested more capital in the U.S. than it has taken from the U.S. ($1 billion v. $450 million), has dropped the special incentives it once offered but does not discriminate against foreign investment. The government favors highly automated new industries that make small demands on scarce Dutch labor, wants more Dutch participation in foreign subsidiaries. Netherlands businessmen feel emotionally drawn to the U.S. more than to any of the members of the Common Market...