Word: driving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rain storm was as apt to inspire him to comment as his "God, who winds our sundials." "It rained so hard the pigs got clean and the people dirty." Or in a line which interested him as it has always interested men: "His beatings showed a sort of sex drive: he beat only his wife...
Russia's drive into missile technology, the committee warned, seems likely to give the enemy the world's first comprehensive missile arm. Result: "the greatest danger to its security that the United States has ever faced," in the form of a missile gap in the early 1960s. "There is as yet no active defense against an intercontinental ballistic missile in flight," warned the report, or any yet in sight. The report also found present liquid-fueled U.S. ICBMs to be wanting. Recommendation: "a most strenuous effort" behind solid-fuel missiles, e.g., the Air Force's Minuteman...
...calculated attack on the Indian patrol in Ladakh, Nehru lost his once unshakable hold on the nation's intellectuals, business leaders and press. With almost one voice, Indians demanded that Nehru defend India's integrity, fire Defense Minister Krishna Menon and, above all, send troops to drive the Chinese invaders from Indian soil...
There are two kinds of energy: "tangential" energy on the outside of entities, and "radial" energy, which operates within. Everything, says Teilhard, has this "within" and "without," and it is the radial energy within that is the evolutionary force, driving toward greater and greater complexity. This drive produced the molecule, the cell, organic life, up through the ooze...
Final totals in the drive, which netted $21,657.51, are as follows: Eliot, $2797; Leverett, $1914 ($5.98 per capita); the Yard, $6175 ($5.32); Quincy, $1219 ($5.30); Winthrop, $1947 ($5.15); Kirkland, $1748 ($4.89); Dunster, $1700 ($4.87); Claverly, $604 ($4.61); Adams, $1429 ($4.30); Lowell...