Word: breach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to be let alone is "the right most valued by civilized men." His was a minority view, however, and despite the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the majority held that tapping telephone wires leading into a house was not in itself a breach of the premises or a violation of the owner's privacy...
...agents, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, had been equipped and aided by the CIA before burglarizing the office of Daniel Ellsberg's Los Angeles psychiatrist was confirmed last week by outgoing CIA Director James Schlesinger. As subcommittees in the House and Senate began investigating this apparent breach of the CIA's role, which by law is confined to foreign activities, Schlesinger testified that a telephone call from Ehrlichman had persuaded the CIA to cooperate with the burglars and to prepare a psychiatric profile on Ellsberg. Schlesinger described these acts as "ill-advised" and "beyond the normal...
...clinic with preserving their sanity. Los Angeles House wife Shirley Figone, who is normal sized, was upset about her dwarf son Chris, 2, until Rimoin arranged for her to meet a dwarf couple with the opposite problem - their normal-sized daughter was embarrassed by them. The meeting helped breach the isolation that so often surrounds dwarfs and their families. "We're saving a scrapbook for Chris, cutting out any newspaper stories we can find concerning little people," says Mrs. Figone. "We want him to know that he's not alone...
Thus, Cambridge sunk deeper and deeper into her own vulnerability. Each violent demonstration, each overt act of violence compounded not only the misery of the poor, but the threat of serious breach of national security...
...serious physicists who believe that such a breach is imminent is Columbia University's Gerald Feinberg, who suggests in his book The Prometheus Project that man may eventually find the means to achieve immortality. Feinberg thinks that psychic transmissions may one day be linked to as yet un discovered elementary particles, so-called mindons or psychons. Other scientists, however, give less credence to such will-o'-the-wisps than they give to another conjectured particle championed by Feinberg: the tachyon, which always travels faster than the speed of light, the theoretical speed limit of the universe...