Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...born Catholics. "I have an idea that my father had been baptized but wandered from the church," says Murray. "But my mother was a practicing Catholic, and after their marriage he rallied around." Early in his childhood, the family moved across the East River to Jamaica, now a crowded segment of the city but then a rural suburb. Here John Murray, with his two sisters, had a happy, uneventful childhood until his father died when he was twelve...
...aware of Professor Rabi's strongly emotional opposition, and that of a segment of the scientific fraternity, to the resumption of nuclear tests. In my judgment Professor Rabi and his confreres are wrong again. Their technical qualifications as nuclear physicists do not guarantee the validity of their views on public policy...
Deliberately overlooked by Kennedy and by too large a segment of the voting public is the fact that despite control of both the House and Senate, the Democrats chose to ride the coattails of Eisenhower's immense international popularity by adopting a bipartisan policy on foreign affairs. If there is blame in the Cuban situation, the Democrats must share it. This includes Senator Kennedy...
...policeman told part of the crowd awaiting Senator Kennedy's progression up Broadway Saturday night, "we'll all catch pneumonia and won't be able to vote Tuesday." It was pouring rain, and the candidate was already an hour-and-a-half late for his "torchlight parade." The first segment of the show, about 150 cars decorated with Kennedy-Johnson posters and carrying electric torches, had passed at 7 p.m--on time--and has met an apathetic reception...
...service boom is detrimental to U.S. growth, that spending money on haircuts for poodles and diaper service does not add to the base of real wealth. Economist Grover W. Ensley, executive vice president of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks, takes the opposite view: "Today a large segment of service expenditures goes for medical care and education, which represent investments that are very productive in improving the future output of the nation. Even money spent on beautification of the fairer sex may turn out very productive in the long...