Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astronauts' imagination is more disciplined by knowledge, but even in our day, when fancy and imagination have been disposed of, what remains is forbidding enough. Yet man is not daunted. These undaunted men are the true creators of history, those thanks to whom history is not a blind chain of facts but a clear-sighted sequence of acts-events that were ideas before they happened. It is from men who act on nature, and do not merely suffer to be acted upon by her, that history flows...
...current era and before the Age of the Hippies and Flower Children there was the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was the far-flung expedition of northern liberalism (a fine thing in those days). It was, as we all know, the first domino to fall in the chain reaction that led youth to the state of "revolution" we're in now. But there are two things about the Civil Rights Movement. First, it was an experience shared by a very small number of youths. Even at the peak of the movement there couldn't have been over...
Despite its resistance to water, DDT is easily soluble in fats and highly susceptible to "biological magnification" as it makes its way up the food chain. A typical case of this kind of metabolic mayhem occurred in Long Island Sound. After some mosquito-infested marshes were sprayed, the DDT was found in the nearby water in a "safe" concentration of .000003 parts per million. Nonetheless, the DDT quickly accumulated in more concentrated form...
...also beginning to diversify. It founded an advertising agency to design its stamp-collecting books; now the agency also represents Singer Brown, and will produce ads for his new restaurant chain. Later this month the company plans to start distributing a free newspaper for shoppers, the B & B Exchange, which will feature stories about black businessmen. Eventually, B & B expects to distribute its stamps nationally, possibly in white areas as well. Powell and his officers promise to extend to white communities a B & B policy of devoting 20% of profits earned in any area to scholarships for children...
...three-student teams to work on every faculty member and turned his gift of gab on the administration. As president of the student body (and class president for all four years), he had the clout to mobilize hundreds of disciples with a single telephone call, which set off a chain of calls across the campus. In May, the university finally approved the new curriculum for a two-year experimental period...