Word: counteractivity
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Once he had discovered the delights of breaking censorship, Cortesi kept at it. Modestly, in the usual third person, he reported: "The dispatch . . . struck the military Government with the force of a high-explosive bomb. . . . Excited consultations . . . took place ... to decide . . . whether anything could be done to counteract the disastrous impression created throughout the continent by what he had written." Last week Argentina's Minister of the Interior summoned Cortesi, warned him "not to be surprised at any thing that may happen to you." Arnaldo Cortesi, to the amazement of all (presumably including himself), found himself acclaimed far & wide...
...Canadian troops had thrown their rifles overboard. The damage was irreparable. We are doing what we can to offset it by repeating the denial and even releasing particulars of the one poor offender's court-martial and sentence, * but we cannot hope that this will counteract the further wanton damage done to our country...
Unless action is taken immediately to counteract the effects of wartime restrictions, the medical profession will face an acute shortage of competent instructors and research personnel in the years immediately following the armistice, assorted C. Sidney Burwell, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, in his annual report released today...
...standard Sikorsky helicopter has a rotor on top, for lifting, and another in the tail, for steering and to counteract the twisting effect given the ship by the top rotor. Hiller decided that the tail rotor was all wrong: it added unnecessary weight, wasted power, set up turbulence around the ship. His solution: two rotors on top, mounted on the same shaft but rotating in opposite directions...
...Hoagland & Pincus thought that fatigue might be reduced by feeding men a steroid substance to counteract their losses. They found that pregnenolone, a synthetic steroid, seemed to do the trick. They have not determined just how it works, but when 50 milligrams of pregnenolone were given per day, efficiency and stamina generally improved...