Word: woven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...synthesis of these twin problems of finances and excessive emphasis on brains finds no explicit statement, but woven through Bender's entire report is a line highly critical of the entire Faculty. The reason we are in danger of becoming an upper class institution is that costs have not been controlled; the tuition increases are diverted entirely into increasing the Faculty's operating budget (only after the very latest tuition rise has the Faculty diverted any of the increased funds to the service of the scholarship office). And the Faculty's increasingly academic image of success is, he maintains...
Next morning, Kennedy saw Sukarno and Keita separately. First to arrive was Keita, who wore, instead of his arrival-day blue suit, a multicolored, hand-woven robe called a boubou. Keita talked of his country's need for economic assistance,* warned Kennedy that in the new African states, friendship goes to the big powers that provide the most help...
...through the image of an old. maimed man living in the care of his daughter. A disabling illness has put the father in a wheelchair-embittered, suspicious, and nursing a hatred for his schoolteacher wife, who contemptuously doles out his spending money. Daughter Antigone lives in a tight, self-woven net of deceit. She has retained the original name and relentless sense of justice of her counterpart in Sophocles' Antigone, but not her virtue, purity or innocence. She takes on a married man as a lover, but for both of them the fun of the game lies in deceiving...
...small package and spread out swiftly. This makes it attractive for use as a steerable parachute or a glider. With an engine attached, the handy Flex Wing may serve for military cargo-carrying, wire-laying and other quick-transport jobs. If its nylon fabric is replaced with cloth woven of heat-resistant metal wires, the Flex Wing may be able to ease space vehicles down through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. One candidate for this treatment, say Ryan engineers, might be the elaborate eight-engine booster of the Saturn rocket, which will crash to costly destruction a short time after...
Minister of Social Welfare Patrick Quaidoo was so aroused that he even dared to attack the elaborate myths which Osagyefo's propagandists have woven around the boss. "People are stupidly engaging in flattery," he sneered. "They say the leader is immortal and will never die. This is rank stupidity or sycophantic adulation. You can never have a President who is infallible . . . The methods being used are exactly the methods which the Nazis and Fascists used...