Word: counteractivity
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...tung has said that Communism will conquer Asia because the U.S. has neither the stamina nor the patience to counteract his "wars of liberation." Now Ho Chi Minh says that the Viet Cong will win the struggle in Viet Nam because "Americans don't like long, inconclusive wars." These statements indicate what we are up against in Southeast Asia. The formula for victory is patience, an organized population, and a preponderance of men and matériel. The United States can prove Chairman Map and Uncle Ho irrevocably wrong. But it will take more strength in the face...
...earthlings. CT is antimatter, which forms the substance of mysterious antiworlds where everything is the mirror image of its counterpart on earth. On some as yet undiscovered planet there might be antipeople who put freeze in their anti-cars, eat pasto for an anti-appetizer, take a dote to counteract antipoison or a biotic against anti-disease or a histamine for an anticold, who join the Defamation League and who put macassars on their anti-sofas. But antimatter is no joke. What is really fearful about it all is that contact of matter with its antimatter counterpart produces an explosive...
...avoid the danger of clotting, the surgeons injected the anticoagulant heparin into the plastic tube leading blood away from the patient. But before it got back into the patient, where the clotting factor was necessary once more, the doctors gave it another injection, this time of protamine, to counteract the heparin...
...Abernethy-whose biggest car, the Ambassador, is actually shorter than many intermediates-has been the decline of the compact market. This trend has cut Rambler sales by 14%, Valiant sales by 29% and Chevy II and Falcon sales each by 39% below their 1964 levels. In an attempt to counteract the slump, American will add luxury features to the 1966 Classic and Ambassador, avoid advertising them as compacts. The 1966 compact American will be given a sporty, sloping rear deck, and emphasized as American's sole compact...
...Glasses & Orange Balls. There was talk of installing blue lights to counteract the sun's glare. The frantic Astros sent out for special red sunglasses and colored baseballs: orange, cherry, yellow. "The orange balls are even worse than the white," reported Manager Lum Harris. Suggestions poured in. "I've had 89 phone calls and 130 wires from as far away as Juneau," Richards sighed. The most sensible came from Johnny Keane, whose New York Yankees arrived in Houston to play an exhibition against the Astros: "Paint the roof," said Keane, "or play all the games at night...