Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million) country can afford to maintain any military presence at all in Asia unless joined by powerful allies, including the U.S. Despite pressure from his own Cabinet, Gorton has so far refused to commit his government to keep forces in Malaysia after the British withdraw in 1971. "Our traditional concept of forward defense," he said recently, "may have to be abandoned in the not too distant future...
MUCH of City is that way today: empty and unneeded. But medical research is only partially and indirectly responsible. There are just not enough people left who are unable to go to a private hospital or to choose their own doctors. "Medicare and medicaid have made obsolete the concept of charity medicine," says Dr. Andrew P. Sackett, Boston's Health and Hospitals Commissioner. The fact that City lies in Boston's oldest and most horrible slum somewhat obscures the meaning of this fact. There are people who do need a charity hospital; the small waiting room at City's admitting...
...perfectly cubic car manufactured by Britain's Universal Power Drives Ltd., could well become the commuter car of the future. In the age of the traffic jam, when both road space and parking space are at a premium, the 6-ft.-4-in.-long Cubicar is a fascinating concept. With a top speed of 55 m.p.h., it gets about 24 miles to the gallon. It can seat five adults in comfort. And it can park, headon, where even a Volkswagen would fear to tread...
...cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh." Polygamy was common among the ancient Jews, he points out, and in the marriage laws of Moses, the word wife "is used regularly with reference to marriage cases which may be either polygamous or monogamous." Nor does polygamy violate the concept of "one flesh." Just as "the several children of one mother may be regarded as 'one flesh' with her by reason of their unity in generation and maternal love," he writes, "in a socially valid polygamous marriage a man may be conjugally united with each of his wives...
...Jewish doctor ministers illegally to a wounded fighter in the underground. But Writer-Director Zbyněk Brynych, a master of the Czech new wave, uses this somewhat shopworn situation as a structure on which to hang a number of unrelated scenes that are exceptionally powerful in both concept and execution...