Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poignant tragedy of shortsightedness in the present discussion about fallout and the relative merits of clean versus dirty bombs, especially from the point of view of a shock hydrodynamicist. War has always been a stupid, nasty and insane business, at best, and the present orders of magnitude on civilian targets lends little sense to the hypocrisy of trying to distinguish between useful and useless killing...
...shoulder not only with those strapping Neanderthal Republicans, Indiana's Bill Jenner and Nevada's Molly Malone, but with Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge too. And when the bill came to a vote after three days of debate, they stood together as part of a notable rear-view rear guard of 25 (see box), roundly beaten by a bipartisan majority...
...peace of every stone-walled town is broken by the noise of motor scooters as the local youths tear up and down the ancient streets. Visitors to the Milan fair came away dazzled by the rich fabrics, handsome machinery that Italy can and is producing. Poverty remains a dismal view down many a dark alley-but compared to what it was like before, for many there has been an increase in hope and a diminution of despair...
Three years ago, just at the height of an election campaign, a handsome young Moslem hodja named Fevzi Boyar arrived in the western Turkish town of Odemis. Like most of Turkey's Moslem divines, Hodja Boyar took a dim view of the secular government established by the late, great Kemal Ataturk,* rejoiced that Premier Adnan Menderes and his Democratic Party had at long last restored religious instruction in Turkey's schools and even raised priestly salaries...
...throbbing Caribbean isle of Santa Marta, which doubtless boasts the highest imaginary birth rate of any 50-mile-long island under the sun. Island employs even the unsubtle cinema device of the screen-bottom exit, pointed up with gasps and romantic rustlings after its clinching couples drop from view...