Word: attachment
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...consists of two small but complete microphone and amplifier units that attach directly to each ear, giving the advantage of binatural perception. Standard devices have only one mike to pick up sounds, usually the size of a package of cigarettes, and one amplifier behind...
...soundly pummeled during a meeting of the Institute of Pacific Relations which ended last week in Lucknow, India. The Asiatic members waded in with all the anti-American postwar squawks which are becoming more & more popular in Asia, in part because so many Americans attach undue importance to what other nations think (or say they think) about...
...many more Americans than were here last July, when the U.S. posture on this island was at its tragic low. Then the senior U.S. officials in residence were a charge d'affaires and Colonel David Barrett, a famous "old China hand" who headed a staff of six military attaches including himself. Since then an American Minister, Karl Rankin, has taken over, a ruddy and genial man of stature and intelligence. In the seven weeks since he arrived, he has galvanized the listless diplomatic staff and earned the respect of Nationalist officialdom. Rear Admiral Harry Jarrett heads an enlarged staff...
...consent to seek re-election." Said a Republican leader: "May God bless Joe Hanley for his gracious and patriotic act." This week Tom Dewey cut short his political "retirement" and announced that he would run for a third term as governor. "There is one condition I should like to attach," said Dewey in a letter to obliging Joe Hanley. The condition: that Hanley run for the U.S. Senate. ". . . Our people need you there...
...Australia and Africa there are spiders that catch their victims by a sort of combination lasso and harpoon. They attach a drop of sticky gum to a length of silky thread, and whirl this apparatus around their heads. When something edible approaches, the spider slings the globule. If it hits, it sticks, and the spider reels in the victim-playing it, if necessary, as a human angler does a fish...