Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...irony of it all. The rings of Saturn and beyond-and here we are diligently seeking ways with which to destroy ourselves and the tiny planet on which we live...
...knew Roosevelt's heart and mind and devised brilliant policy innovations within that framework. The Secretary battled adversaries, wooed friends, took sweeping bows for success, the kicks in the pants for mistakes, argued vehemently at times with Roosevelt but in the end loved the President and his cause beyond himself. Roosevelt knew it and honored him. Ickes took few orders from underlings...
...Cibola, drills sink into the earth in search of uranium. The Mountain States hold vast deposits of the nation's coal, oil and uranium; they are at the heart of any U.S. energy program, and thus of the nation's future. The boom is sweeping far beyond the coalfields and oilfields. Construction cranes pierce the skies over Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Boise, cities that already bristle with high-rises undreamed of ten years ago. Modernistic electronics plants sprout alongside gleaming shopping malls and clusters of ranch houses. The new pioneers keep streaming in-young parents...
...destroyed. Mrs. Gandhi has promised about $2,000 compensation to each victim. "I want to express my deep agony over what has happened," she told parliament. "I felt physically sickened when I heard. What are we coming to in this country? That anyone could do such a thing is beyond my comprehension...
...AMERICAN PHONY always gives himself away by his colour. There are other hints, of course--Dunhill cigarettes, references to "Bianca" in conversation, upraised sport-jacket collars, to name only a few--but the single guaranteed, dead-to-rights giveaway of pretension and affectation beyond bounds of normal tolerance is the spelling of color with...