Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This was ethically permissible, he says, in the hope of finding a better treatment for a lethal disease. The patient was a man of 20 whose heart had been failing for three months. Under study by special microscope techniques at The Kennedy Institute, the muscle specimens were found to contain particles that could not be identified. The one certain thing about them was that they were neither bacteria nor true viruses. From a second patient's heart, the researchers got samples of particles that seemed to be in four or five successive phases of a life cycle...
...record albums by The Fugs, a rock-and-roll group whose songs contain explicit references to sex and drugs, have disappeared from the shelves of Harvard Square record stores after one store was threatened with criminal charges...
...made the difference." Without a man on board a spacecraft, there is no judgment aloft, no freedom of choice, no chance to take advantage of unforeseen opportunities, less chance than ever of getting past unforeseen trouble. Ranger's pictures of the moon, spectacular though they were, contain only 500,000 "bits" of information; the human eye with one glance takes in 100 million "bits." In short, however intricately engineered, no instrument, no computer can quite replace man. As one scientist observed, "You can study a girl's measurements, but it will never be a substitute for putting your...
...Ghana's dreaded security service was carried by police. Caught in nearby Nigeria and flown to Accra on a Ghana air force plane, he was on his way to prison-and almost surely to death. The cage in which he rode had been especially designed and constructed to contain a greater prize: the erstwhile Ghanaian ruler, Kwame Nkrumah, who before his overthrow a year ago, called himself "the Christ of our day" and "the Conqueror of imperialism...
...because she used a switchblade knife to fight off a suspected rapist on the street at night. She escaped prosecution only because a sympathetic grand jury refused to indict her. Though tear-gas pens are legal in most states, the notable exceptions include New York, Illinois and California, which contain the nation's largest, unsafest cities. New York City even bans water pistols loaded with an eye-stinging chemical like ammonia. Ironically, there is nothing to prevent the purchase of rifles by mail or even at the nearest sporting-goods store...