Word: objected
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...still did not know the distance from earth of the colliding galaxies. Further exposures, up to nine hours long, gave photographs of their spectrum. The familiar spectral lines had shifted far into the red. According to the theory of the expanding universe, a red shift means that the photographed object is moving away from the observer with a speed proportionate to the shift. In this case the galaxies appeared to be receding at the extraordinary speed of 90,000 miles per second-about 46% of the speed of light which, according to Einstein, is the ultimate velocity...
...sunlit ease of their homelands. They live in bleak, crowded rooming houses in Netting Hill and Paddington, find their entertainment in smoky cellar nightclubs that are loud with West Indian steel bands, bongo drums and maracas. They are genuinely puzzled when the Jumbles (a corruption of John Bulls) object to the noise and the dawn revelry. "What harm do we do?" asked an African last week. "We like to dance and sing, and we've worked hard all day and till late at night. The only time I have to enjoy myself is when I finish work...
...round man of letters and longtime teacher (Harvard, Smith, Amherst, New York University, etc.), Critic Kazin admits to a "highbrow's disdain for Broadway" but also to a plain ticket buyer's irritation with the whole atmosphere of the present theater. "What I object to in the image of man on Broadway," says Kazin* "is that it is concerned largely with 'psychological man,' the man who looks at nothing but himself, his own emotional wants, his own sexual satisfactions, none of which is now news to any of us, and may for once, please...
...summoned Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois to Blair House and offered to support him for the Democratic presidential nomination. Adlai just could not make up his mind. Months later, Truman gave up in disgust and switched to Vice President Alben Barkley. Then Adlai called and asked: "Would you object if I agreed to run?" At that, says Truman, "I blew up. I talked to him in language I think he had never heard before...
...Object was to choose men to lead the new nation, three times the size of Texas, when it becomes independent next month. By decree from Brussels, the Congo's 115,000 whites are not allowed to vote, and most of the half-naked, illiterate black voters had no idea what the candidates were talking about. There were 65 parties in the field. The Abako party's crafty Joseph Kasavubu sought to split off his Lower Congo region and make it autonomous. Secession-minded Moise Tshombe's Conakat group, 1,000 miles away in Elisabethville, was demanding...