Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...since last October, when they launched the 4,037-lb. Lunik III, have the Soviets orbited a satellite. A fortnight ago Sputnik III tumbled back into Earth's atmosphere and burned up, so the box score on satellites still transmitting stood at U.S. six, U.S.S.R. zero. It was doubtful that, in the Kremlin, anybody was telling any new jokes about space...
...three-page questionnaire, scaled on the basis of "points" (highest score: 100), grades would-be home owners on such qualities as descent, way of life (American?), occupation (Typical of his own race?), swarthiness (Very? Medium? Slightly? Not at all?), accent (Pronounced? Medium? Slight? None?), name (Typically American?), repute, education, dress (Neat or slovenly? Conservative or flashy?), status of occupation (sufficient eminence may offset poor grades in other respects). Religion is not scored, but weighed in the balance by a three-man Grosse Pointe screening committee. All prospects are handicapped on an ethnic and racial basis: Jews, for example, must score...
None of it seemed to have much to do with carpets, fertility symbols, the inside of an icebox, or the accompanying score (The Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music by Handel). But as pure dance spectacle, it was top-shelf Balanchine...
Beyond these, there are a score of conditions in which antibody hunters suspect that auto-allergy plays a role, e.g., multiple sclerosis, rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, and severe forms of kidney disease. The University of Washington's Dr. Paul P. Van Arsdel Jr. called attention to the appearance of antibodies against their own heart-muscle tissue in victims of heart attacks. When the antibodies appear, they have no effect on the healing of the heart muscle. The consensus: anti bodies will probably appear after protracted damage to any tissues...
...earth, and heroes." and more than a score of blood-drenched novels (The Triumph of Death] and plays (The Dead City, The Ship}. His heroes were voluptuous and cruel. "Whv must there be a germ of sadist perversion in everyone who loves and desires?" the D'Annunzian hero asked himself as he pulled his beloved, and his beloved self, off a cliff, or in fake Renaissance fashion raped his sister...