Word: counteractions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adaptation to the rotation speed. Routine jobs on a spaceship would be no easier. Since the room is moving counterclockwise, the pitcher must aim the ball to the left of the catcher. The dart board presents the same problem. Early in the run, the men readily learned to counteract the spin at low speeds. Now they are being tested again at the higher r.p.m. and are finding the game a good deal tougher...
...Springfield ruling was influenced by Pettigrew, who had testified in the case last fall. "Admittedly, much of the damage done to the Negro is a function of our whole society," he said. "But the schools are at least in part responsible, and must try to counteract society's harmful effects...
Rowan quoted a Chinese charge that the Civil Rights bill is a "legislative fraud designed to stifle the Negro civil rights movement." Noting that anti-American charges fall on sympathetic ears throughout Asia and Africa, Rowan outlined USIA programs to counteract the effects of Chinese propaganda...
...submarine that patrols the ocean floor, combatting the sinister forces, human and natural, that threaten the American way. Last week earthquakes of unprecedented ferocity were about to produce tidal waves that would drown almost anyone in the U.S. who did not happen to be standing on Pikes Peak. To counteract these H-breakers, the sub had to blast them with H-bombs before they got rolling. For one hour, on land and at sea, machine guns chattered, torpedoes schlurped through the deep, and missiles sang in the air. Voyage is all it tries to be: fast-moving calisthenics for young...
...council's first activities will be to prepare radio programs to counteract alleged distortions in radio and TV reports sponsored by extreme right-wing groups...