Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Springtime tourists in Egypt who had expected to take the two-hour flight from Cairo to Aswan for a glimpse of the High Dam are having to alter plans. The Egyptian government has announced that for a month or so, Aswan flights are being scrubbed. The cancellation is not difficult to understand. Soviet freighters and air force transports have been ferrying military supplies to Egypt, including jet fighters, sophisticated anti-aircraft guns, and additional SA-2 and SA3 missiles similar to those that already ring the dam and line the Suez Canal's west bank. The suspension of flights...
...only some 35,000 years after the birth of modern man?a brief interval on the evolutionary time scale?the arrow is pointing in a dramatic new direction. Not only has man begun to unlock the most fundamental life processes, but he may soon be able to manipulate and alter them?curing such killer diseases as cancer, correcting the genetic defects that account for perhaps 50% of all human ailments, lessening the ravages of old age, expanding the prowess of his mind and body. Says Caltech's Robert Sinsheimer, one of the architects of the biological revolution: "For the first...
...only the American people who can stop America's aggression against the people and land of Southeast Asia. No amount of courage and self-sacrifice by the Indochinese can stop raids by hundreds of B-52's based in Guam. No amount of resistance by Asian peasants can alter the decision to use napalm and fragmentation bombs against civilian targets. In the final analysis, it is we who must take responsibility for forcing the U. S. out of Southeast Asia...
After meeting with the Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports last week. Watson said. "It is my decision that Munro should stay and be given another chance. My mind is not made up and I could still easily be persuaded to alter my decision. There's a lot to be said for both sides...
...them, each in turn. In "Against Interpretation" (1964) Sontag makes a case for interpreting interpretation (at this time in history) as a social force of repression against new forms, as a purging of "dangerous emotions" (like Aristotelian tragedy) in dangerous works which refuse to purge themselves, by attempting to alter them intellectually...