Word: counteractivity
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...speed necessary for aeropause flight, the craft will be enclosed in a film of hot air at 1,000° C. For flights of mod erate speed and duration, refrigerating units like those used on present-day jet fighters may be enough to counteract such temperatures. For long, fast flights, something more elaborate is required. One proposal for rocket-driven craft is to use the intensely cold liquid oxygen fuel as a heat absorber...
...painful shyness, Louis Finkelstein was never backward when he had a cause. In order to counteract the drift of Brownsville away from the Torah, he and Sol Goldman launched an intense juvenile crusade - buttonholing youngsters, speaking on street corners, organizing study clubs, and lining up pledges to observe the Sabbath...
...Life merely vaunted to supply one more argument to people who are already anti-Communist, then it succeeded. But if it was hoping to counteract the world-wide Communist propaganda blast about McGee, it was far off the track. If people flee from any cause to which the Communists attach themselves (and the Communists try to attach themselves to almost everything) then it is likely that little constructive work will be done in cleaning up this country's sore spots...
During the 20 years that followed his appointment, Sorokin has spent much of his time at the University doing research in the science of Love, work to counteract "man's predatory instincts." With the forming of the new Research Center in Altruism, he has been relieved of much of his teaching and administrative responsibility, and now spends a $20,000 a year grant trying to systematize culture...
...hour shifts chanted the names of peaceable deities, and sang hymns interspersed by frequent repetitions of the sacred word "om"-that "mystic sound," according to one swami, "which vibrates and makes luminous and radiant the inner and outer atmospheres." The vibrations, the holy men hoped, would counteract war preparations the world over. The holy men were generally optimistic, except gloomy Swami Puroshottamanand. "I am sorry I ever left my cave," said the swami, who had not ventured out in 26 years. "War is inevitable...