Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reservations to CIA intelligence. Man's capacity to manage vast organizations is being enlarged enormously by the computer's ability to simulate complex situations, weigh thousands of variables, and produce dependable decisions far faster than the human brain. By forecasting future markets, computers locate gas stations and branch banks in the most profitable places. By controlling runaway inventories, they curb one of the leading causes of recessions...
With his short, rotund figure and his spade beard, Professor Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. looked like a harmless Santa Claus. Instead he bristled with versatility. He was a top-rank mathematician who fathered a new branch of science, an enthusiastic mountain climber, and a facile writer of both fiction and philosophy. He could talk intelligently on almost any subject. When he died of a heart attack in Stockholm last week, his colleagues the world over testified to a special sense of loss. For Wiener was one of a vanishing crew-a first-rate scientist whose curiosity and skills covered...
...yanked through the bottom of her lobe. Ear piercing provides a potential modern analogy of the ancient Chinese tortures, in which victims were suspended by their thumbs. One girl, hiking in the White Mountains, found that her earrings were so long that they kept catching on low-droping branches. Finally, she took to wearing a sailor hat for fear that she might keep walking some time when her earring was hooked on a branch a few feet back...
...answer them, invoking not only the familiar Fifth Amendment, but the First, Fourth and Sixth as well. Reading from the typewritten statement that he had placed in front of him, he insisted that the hearing had no "true legislative purpose," and was "an unconstitutional invasion by the legislative branch into the proper function of the judiciary...
Gartland also stood alone in supporting a motion to cooperate with the Boston branch of the NAACP in the form of a six-man commission to work with the Harvard School of Education on a "Boston plan" for school integration...