Word: groundedness
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Aristotle wrote in his Poetics that the ideal drama should be grounded on a plot so firm that, "even without seeing the things take place, he who simply hears the account of them shall be filled with horror and pity at the incidents; which is just the effect that the...
Pan Am lost the race to use the first pure jets on the Atlantic run with revenue passengers when BOAC's Comet IV three weeks ago began a weekly London-New York run. BOAC hoped to follow up its head start by beginning daily New York-London flights on...
"The uncommon woman is the person who is different from most in that she rises above mediocrity, leads rather than goes along with the crowd, forms her own opinions rather than accepts others' uncritically, but has her opinions well-grounded on information and thought, not on hasty judgment or prejudice...
Altar Egos. In Los Angeles, Western Air Lines reported that while a 108-day pilots' union strike grounded the line, 40 idle stewardesses got married, had to give up their jobs because of a company rule against married stewardesses.
On the sixth day of the "offensive," President Fulgencio Batista's government finally issued a statement denying that its army was engaged in "fullscale combat" in Oriente-"only small skirmishes," it said. Other reports indicated that heavy rains and a sea of mud had bogged down the troops and...