Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last stand. Never had a sea battle's stakes been so high, never so many warships involved, never such fierce fighting over such a vast expanse of trackless ocean. It was in fact four great battles, waged with every known naval weapon, majestic in its sweep, but complex and even controversial in its detail. Both the sense of sweep and the drama of detail are to be found in color maps with accompanying text...
...coming elections. In Bombay state, as the price of a local alliance with their old foes, the Praja Socialists, Red leaders signed a resolution expressing support for "the Prime Minister and the government of India, in defense of the territorial integrity of our great country," then muttered complex explanations to angry party diehards. Unappeased, Puran Joshi, editor of the party weekly, New Age, refused even to print the resolution to which the Bombay comrades had subscribed...
...peninsula jutting from the rocky northern coast near Cutler, Me., the Navy is building a $63 million transmitter complex that, by any measure, will rank as the world's biggest. Rising 980 ft., its two main antenna masts are almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower (984 ft.). With their flanking arrays of twelve smaller masts, each complex occupies the ground space of eleven Pentagons. Operating at 2,000,000 watts, the station will be 40 times more powerful than the biggest commercial stations and three times more powerful than the mightiest military transmitters known to exist...
...exquisitely complex chemistry of living things, no substances are more important than two that stand on the threshold between nonlife and life: ribonucleic acids (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA). Nothing can live without some kind of RNA, and the kind of RNA it produces, which determines whether it will become an amoeba or a mammoth, is in turn determined by its DNA, the template of heredity. Last week two U.S. physician-scientists were named winners of the 1959 Nobel Prize ($42,606) in medicine for having synthesized giant molecules...
However, NSA is a complex organization with as many potentialities for improvement as it has accomplishments. It is undergoing a period of transition--rethinking its own philosophy of student concerns and reorganizing its structure. It would be foolish to pass it by without taking the time to find out what...