Word: alteration
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rush. Today, historians describe the battle as Hitler's last great gamble, and German generals who survived the war as one of his great blunders. In interviews with several of those generals, TIME's Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate learned how they sought to alter der Führer's plan, and how the postwar history of Europe might have changed had they succeeded...
...recent Selective Service bulletin states that "It is still impossible for Selective Service to attempt to calibrate all of the contingencies which might arise, and over which the Selective Service System has no control, that might alter the original Department of Defense estimate with respect to the various levels of vulnerability for the numbers that were drawn in the lottery...
...Globe. The protest went unheeded. Similarly, a Symphony Orchestra board of trustees member wrote to Herald Traveler Publisher Harold E. Clancy expressing dismay that the paper had hired "one of [Steinberg's] young imitators. We think that perhaps the Herald might be in a position to alter its course...
...might be: The curves in Fig. 6.48 give the values of apparent crater diameter and depth in dry soil as a function of explosion veiled. Given a 20 KT surface burst over sandstone, find the crater dimensions. (Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 4th ed.) Such a reorientation in education might alter the balance of interest on the part of children away from TV or comics toward school...
...half-share of $7.7 million in Defense Department money for computer research, some say. would alter significantly the entire nature of the social sciences at Harvard. Dean Ford said in September that joining the Project "would involve a considerable shift in emphasis in one or several parts of the Faculty ... this is not unlike setting up a new department...