Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors send a gentle electric current through the electrode to find out whether the patient feels a tingling in his fingers, arm or foot (always on the side opposite the electrode). This gives yet another check on placement. Finally they use a strong enough current, under anesthesia, to destroy a small part of the thalamus...
...week's end the embarrassed temple council set about saving face in the best Japanese tradition. Photographer Tsuchiya agreed to apologize publicly and destroy all his negatives. The two novices pictured most revealingly agreed to expulsion-and then reinstatement. Head Priest Mumon Yamada blamed it all on an influx of university-trained novices who lack moral fiber. Lamented Yamada: It was not so in the old days, when novices were poor boys without education or appetite for soft living...
...players, Beauty and Ugly, sit facing in the same direction, using a board 17 by 11 inches. While Beauty attempts to fabricate an aesthetically satisfying design, Ugly endeavors to thwart his enemy by placing his quota of pieces in awkward spots, and to destroy Beauty's harmony...
...Plateau. The Administration's answer is a plain, firm no. With its primary force of nuclear-armed bombers and fighter-bombers, plus its soon-to-come secondary force of offensive missiles, the U.S. can already, in the blunt words of a high Pentagon official, "destroy everything." The problem is not to increase that overwhelming destructive power ("overkill" in Pentagonese), but to keep modernizing the means of delivery so as to stay ahead of Soviet defense capabilities. As newer means of delivering nuclear punch are "phased in"-so runs Administration thinking-older means can be "phased out." Total destructive power...
...carry these concepts into the international field. The U.S. helped base the United Nations Charter on peaceful settlement of disputes in conformity with the principles of justice and international law." Since then, the Communists-to whom laws are means "whereby those in power suppress or destroy their enemies"-have used the U.N. as a propaganda forum made safe by their veto power while using force everywhere else from Hungary to Tibet. The U.S. meanwhile helped 21 new nations advance to freedom by lawful, orderly means...