Word: alter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult to guarantee internal freedom in the U.S. for two reasons. External games and behaviors are imposed through education. And laws limit one's right to alter his own consciousness. Therefore, Leary said, "we've organized a game to provide more internal freedom for those who want to join the game." His "game" is the International Foundation for Internal Freedom...
First: The government and its famous scientific adviser Van Allen now claim that no one could have predicted the bomb would alter the patterns of radiation around the earth to the extent it did. In fact, a number of prominent scientists, both American and foreign, advised the United States that such a test would cause gross distortion of the earth's magnetic and radiation fields and consequent difficulties for several fields of scientific inquiry. For example, Professor Lovell of the Jodrell Bank. Observatory warned very early that the blast would greatly hinder radio astronomy and might create new dangers...
...that the aggressor will be free from punishment for this attack. If such attack is made, this will be the beginning of unleashing war." Kennedy was calm. He came with a prepared statement, which he read with force. But its well-formed sentences did not shift the debate or alter any previous views; they did not change the policy of "containment" and watchful waiting which the President has espoused to date...
...over the floor management of the bill after Chairman Harry Byrd. patriarch of Democratic conservatism, objected to the revenue loss involved in its 7% in come tax credit for industries that invest in new machinery. In eight days of slashing, sarcastic debate. Kerr beat off every significant attempt to alter the bill. In a hopeless snarl of party lines, such Democratic liberals as Illinois' Paul Douglas, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Tennessee's Albert Gore found themselves arrayed against President Kennedy. Alongside them were Byrd and such steely Republican conservatives as Arizona's Barry Goldwater...
...turn by waggling their outstretched arms. The classic form for a sustained free fall is an ecstatic swan dive, the jumper falling spread-eagled and belly down, his back deeply arched. A roll of the head, a dip of the hands, a hunch of the shoulders-any movement will alter his fall. The body acts as a primitive airfoil and expert sky divers use it to control the speed and direction of their plunge. Officials lying flat on their backs study and judge the falling forms through binoculars, but to most spectators the jumpers become visible only when their chutes...