Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sweep's chemicals are of a nontoxic, noncorrosive variety commonly used in the disposal of sewage and industrial wastes. One type, known as polyelectrolytes, imparts tiny electrical charges to the billions of airborne water droplets. Once charged, the droplets attract one another, combine, and often plunge to the ground as rain. Even if no precipitation occurs, the reduction of the number of droplets in the air alone improves visibility. Other chemicals, called surfactants, push the fog-clearing process along by relaxing the droplets' surface tension, the contracting tendency that helps give them their particular size and shape...
...G.O.P. After his attack oh Humphrey, the initial speculation was that he had damaged the Republican cause. That feeling eventually gave way to another. In 1968, a year when a strongly conservative mood has gripped many voters (see box, page 22), such a note of toughness may attract even more people than it repels...
...Charles Quitman Stephens, 57, chose to lead his life. An unemployed bulldozer operator, Stephens drew a veteran's modest pension from the Government, lived alone in a room rented for $10 a week in downtown Memphis, and had a reputation for drinking. Stephens would have continued to attract small notice had he not been present in his rooming house on the afternoon that Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death while standing on a motel balcony a few hundred feet away...
Like Johnson, Humphrey has become distrustful of the press?although his condition is nowhere near so grave as the President's?and he has begun to open a credibility gap of his own. Like Johnson, he has been unable to select or attract really first-rate aides. With some exceptions, notably his newly appointed campaign manager, Larry O'Brien, his staff...
Onganía's victory over his rival may prove Pyrrhic. Though two of the ousted service chiefs are to be given attractive ambassadorships, Alsogaray plans to stay in Argentina. His brother Alvaro resigned his post in Washington and is returning home. If they can attract enough supporters to contest Onganía's dominance of the government, together they hope to find a way to head Argentina back along the road to democracy...