Word: vacuuming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreigners.' " Though such obscurantism is no longer official policy, there remains a woeful lack of teachers and teaching aids. During Schlesmger's tour of the Harbin Polytechnic Institute, Correspondent Talbott saw one class assembling primitive watches and another studying the inner workings of antique radios made with vacuum tubes rather than transistors...
Stuck in a dreary role (Hopkins' idiotic high school sweetie), this actress works hard to bring warmth to a film that abhors humanity as much as nature does a vacuum. It is also a pleasure to see that time is treating her uncommonly well: the new lines on her face only add to her beauty In a movie that otherwise mocks its title, Ann-Margret really is magic...
...something of an anomaly. Not yet established in the profession, the assistant professor stands below the senior faculty in status and in age. But he outranks the graduate student in intellectual achievement and position. As one assistant professor puts it. "Junior faculty are in an intellectual achievement and emotional vacuum here." Poised uneasily between two extremes, the junior faculty member must carve out a place of his own at Harvard...
...live pictures of the touchdown on a plain in Kazakhstan or the wobbly emergence of the men from their capsule after 4½ months of weightlessness. But a preliminary checkup showed that the cosmonauts had withstood their ordeal well, keeping in shape with rigorous exercises and the use of vacuum suits that forced their blood to circulate as if they were standing upright on earth. Encouraged by the results, Flight Director Alexei Yeliseyev contended that the Soviets could now send out manned space expeditions of practically unlimited duration...
...students are brought up on the classics of the English literary heritage, and there are constant letters to the London Times on the harmful influences of T.V. on children--especially the dreadful impact of detective shows from our linguistically degenerate cousins across the Atlantic. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, so English tutors abhor transatlantic jargon and the fondness for acronyms so prevalent in the U.S.--as caustic essay comments from my Oxford tutors would testify...