Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the night the dormitory lights burned, and from them dead bugs fell to the three-piece mattresses below. The women were in distant tents. Married couples could assure meeting in the confusion of the following day only by arranging a time and place in advance. The ultimate result was hardly the intellectual repartee in a Vienna winecellar for which Americans had hoped...
...first upper-class woman to break the archbishop's position was his own distant relative, Dolores del Rio, Mexico's ageless beauty, who made her first film in 1925. Since then the gradual path of feminine emancipation has paralleled Mexico's growing industrial boom. As new jobs were created, parents began giving daughters the education necessary to fill them. In 1953, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines gave women the vote. The women have taken it from there...
With cool detachment, Northerners often view school segregation as a disease confined to the distant South. Yet many a Northern city is undergoing a vast Negro influx, a consequent white flight to the suburbs. With the newcomers forced into black-belt housing, de facto segregation prevails in urban public schools throughout the North. So goes the pattern in Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia-a steady proliferation of conditions contrary to the spirit of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal...
Missouri's Stuart Symington: "The Missouri Fury, a shortrange, antidefense missile. It is true that so far its launching site has been Capitol Hill in Washington, and that nose cones from the Missouri Fury have been recovered regularly at points no more distant than the Pentagon and the White House. Dr. H. S. Truman of Independence, sole architect of the remarkably successful Hot-Shot Harry missile of 1948, heads the small research and development team at work on the Missouri Fury. One desirable feature of the Fury is the fact that it is somewhat quieter than other models...
...country would do." His first choice was Palestine. Posted to the Holy Land in 1936 as a British intelligence officer, he flung himself with typical passion into the Zionist cause. The Jews, knowing that Wingate was born into an evangelical Protestant sect (the Plymouth Brethren) and was a distant relative of the famed Lawrence of Arabia, at first thought he was a spy, or crazy. He violently urged the raising of a Jewish national army, and personally established the special night squads, mixed patrols of Jewish policemen and British soldiers to combat Arab terrorists. The British army distrusted Wingate even...