Word: adjusting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named for the glassy lens in its snout), can be dropped from an altitude of 30,000 ft., far above the reach of most antiaircraft artillery. As the bomb glides toward the target on a free-falling trajectory, the pilot, who monitors the flight on a television receiver, can adjust its course by remote control, or the bomb, having "memorized" the picture of the target with its built-in electronic brain, can aim itself for a direct hit. The Walleye is employed mainly against bridges and other large targets. An even more sophisticated "EO" (electro-optical) missile called the Maverick...
...that American liberalism no longer has the power to draw people as it used to. People see evidence of a lack of common sense in too great a demand for freedom. Also, I think, many people have found the changes of the last few years too hard to adjust to; they demand a slower pace to progress, and more compromises. This explains a lot of the drawing power of Governor Wallace...
...said that many schools do not understand black culture. "A lot of teachers think that a child is dumb or slow it he talks in the black dialect at school," he said. Bouldin also said that schools and testing programs must accept the validity of the black dialect and adjust...
Robert Williams, a black psychologist from Washington University in St. Louis who spoke to the convention, said Saturday that white psychologists are largely responsible for the educational system's inability to adjust to black culture. Williams said that white psychologists who don't understand blacks develop theories about black culture and then plagiarize the work of black psychologists to defend their theories...
...still there, wasn't he? He was doing the same things, wasn't he (even if four or five photographers were always shooting it from the balcony)? Even Erich Segal wasn't as media-sophisitcated as he could've been. He badly needed a term's leave to adjust...