Word: without
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Without imposing intellectual imperialism, the United States should sponsor, through the medium of the English language, the development of national cultures. Technicians are not enough, Malik claimed; liberal thinking provides the only answer to Communism...
...grew up. Born as an occasional handbill on downtown storefronts, the paper had gone daily in 1882 and settled into an indolent rut, focusing mostly on the doings along King Street and the arrival and departure of ships. Allen set about extending the paper's horizon, but not without occasional whimsical excursions into island fun. ?No one could be really sure what would appear on April Fools' Day. Allen once ran a great hoax about the remains of a Viking Ship being uncovered in the sands off Waimanalo Beach, a completely phony yarn that other island newspapers cheerfully...
...cabin. Alongside was a freighter; people were sitting on the bridge, having evening drinks." Battered by huge waves, isolated by fog, Chichester slept only four to six hours a night, fought his loneliness by writing a 75,000-word diary, disdained a prescribed daily log (sample question: "Happy without feminine company?"). An expert navigator, Chichester accepted the risk of icebergs and storms, gambled on a northerly course along the comparatively short Great Circle route...
...Country Boy. The man who was apparently least concerned by the mess was Newberg himself, who righteously announced that he had disposed "of the current differences of opinion in a way that would leave my record clean without any doubt as to my integrity." He did not seem distressed at losing a six-figure-salary job as head of the ninth largest U.S. corporation, or disturbed by the harm he had done to the reputation of Chrysler, where he had worked 27 years...
While much of the company's work is theoretical problem solving, some of it is quite practical. Sample: How do you find out how much fallout there is on a house from an atom blast without exploding a bomb? Tech Ops' answer was to build a scaled-down city, surround it with plastic tubing through which radioactive cobalt 60 is pumped, and then measure the fallout. The results are projected to a full-scale city. Through such experiments for the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Tech Ops will make recommendations for realistic civil defense measures...