Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could not always be guided into the desired path at a junction or around sharp curves. The new model, developed in research at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, has a magnetic tip. This can be made to oscillate in different directions under the control of an external magnet on alternating current. As the tip vibrates, it pulls clear of the artery's walls, leaving them undamaged, and "swims" forward. When the magnet is powered by direct current, it helps to steer the device...
...members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were unanimous in calling for immediate military action," Bobby writes. "When the President questioned what the response of the Russians might be, General LeMay assured him there would be no reaction." At a congressional briefing, Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright also preferred direct military action to "the weak step" of a blockade. As one of the principal debaters, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson went to the other extreme, advocating appeasement of the Russians by abandoning the Guantánamo naval base in Cuba and dismantling missile sites in Turkey and Italy. Without elaboration, Bobby...
...Gaullists and leftists opposed letting him assume editorial command. So he signed an agreement with Figaro's noted editor, Pierre Brisson, who had killed off the paper during World War II rather than knuckle under to the Nazis. The agreement gave Brisson and his colleagues complete freedom to direct the paper...
...letters with another word. The words are read off continuously along a strand of DNA, much as a punched-tape message is read by a teletype machine. Among the 64 possible three-letter combinations of the four nucleotides, it was later discovered, there were several that served to direct the cell to start or stop manufacturing a protein. Nirenberg and Khorana also found some redundancy in the code: some of the amino acids were called up by several different three-letter combinations...
...resolution of support, the Cabinet said: "This slate of directors will be able and willing to direct the Coop to bring about changes of policy which PBH feels are of vital interest to its own concern as a community oriented organization...