Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are other brakes on progress: the rigidly entrenched caste system, the antipathy of the educated toward manual labor, the 8,000,000 wandering sadhus or holy men (80% reputed to be frauds) who live in idleness. These and the leaden weight of superstition and ignorance make of Indian life, in Nehru's despairing words, "a sluggish stream, living in the past, moving slowly through the accumulations of dead centuries...
...merely reacting, has lately done so intelligently. A Caribbean arms embargo coupled with an obvious show of patience toward Cuba has taken any hemisphere-wide punch out of Castro's anti-Yankee tirades. Current U.S. investment policies are increasingly based on partnership (see below). The Inter-American Bank, mostly U.S. financed, will be in business just as soon as the remaining 18 of the 20 Latin American countries cough up their donations...
...sunset ballast" (mostly steel shot) to boost it up again. Though the gondola was insulated, it soon grew deathly cold. Both men shivered so hard that they literally shook the whole gondola. When Venus finally rose at 3:30 a.m., Moore started to turn the telescope toward it. But whenever the men moved, the gondola corkscrewed and rotated, vibrating all the time from their shivering. "It was very hard to point in a given direction," says Moore. "It showed that Newton's action and reaction theories are right. Everything we did produced an opposite reaction. It was like standing...
...Through the Ooze. Scientist Teilhard believes in evolution, not just as a matter of accepting Darwin; evolution for him is the mystical key to existence, the movement of the universe toward God. But God does not appear in Teilhard's book until the very end, and then under a different name...
There are two kinds of energy: "tangential" energy on the outside of entities, and "radial" energy, which operates within. Everything, says Teilhard, has this "within" and "without," and it is the radial energy within that is the evolutionary force, driving toward greater and greater complexity. This drive produced the molecule, the cell, organic life, up through the ooze...