Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brute-Force Buttonhook. The fuel problem arose during Gemini 10's tricky fourth-orbit rendezvous with Agena 10. To determine the final thrust required for the interception, Young and Collins used data from the on-board radar, inertial guidance and computer system. In some as yet unknown way, the system produced a figure nearly 7 ft. per sec. greater than the figure radioed up from ground control. When Collins' own slide-rule tabulation agreed with the spacecraft guidance system, Command Pilot Young chose to go with the double-checked on-board answer...
...becoming a longwinded, disorganized barrage of pomposity, sentimentality, and self-conscious melodrama. For the first four movements there was a sense of heaviness, as if the music could not build up any motive force of its own and got from one measure to the next only through the brute force of the players...
...century. More than 100 million people in the last six decades have been killed in military action alone, and the hairy thumb of violence has not lost its itch. Can man learn, before it is too late, to control the Cain in his constitution? Only if he understands the brute, says Austria's celebrated Naturalist Konrad Lorenz (King Solomon's Ring, Man Meets Dog). But the brute, he hastens to add, cannot finally be understood in psychiatric terms because man is too small a measure for such things. Aggression is as old as the amoeba...
...swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like...
...have been ahead of their administrations and faculties in recognizing the importance of reform. At Chicago and CCNY, the split between students and administration has provoked the former into employing singularly inappropriate tactics. To protest military intrusion in the academy, the students themselves set a dangerous precedent by using brute force to dramatize their position. A whole host of milder methods, from petitions to orderly boycotts, should have been exhausted before force was even contemplated...