Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both groups, however, direct their petitions to the Administration as requests. The more stubborn the University is in its refusal to change, the more radical each group becomes. Middle-of-the-road radicals adopt more extreme methods in an attempt to force University compliance, and the traditionalists turn to activist politics. Of course, everybody could just give up and go back to reading for tutorial. But for many students the personal stakes are too high...
...November, 1960, students staged what would become known as a "sit-in" at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were trying to integrate that restaurant through direct action instead of working for the election of a sympathetic mayor or city councilman. It was an historic moment in the evolution of American dissent. This rejection of electoral politics caught the imagination of students around the country. SNCC grew out of the Greensboro lunch counter...
Atmosphere Profile. America's 540-Ib. Mariner 5 took a less direct approach, swinging to within 2,480 miles of the Venusian surface and then briefly disappearing behind the planet before heading toward a permanent orbit around the sun. As Mariner drew close, its instruments searched for a Venusian magnetic field and an accompanying radiation belt, and peered down into the upper atmosphere to determine its height and temperature profile. As the spacecraft swung behind Venvis, its radio signals passed through the Venusian atmosphere on their way to earth. By measuring the effect the intervening gases...
...compounds suddenly disappears. These substances become highly efficient conductors, and small voltages produce large currents that continue to flow indefinitely even after the power source has been withdrawn. Scientists can now envision a superconductive power-transmission line cooled by liquid helium that could carry 100 billion watts of direct current for hundreds of miles with no appreciable losses...
...proposed tax increase would increase pressure for cutbacks. Congressmen like to go home and say that they have forced the President to cut spending," Farber said. "But most Members of Congress are very sophisticated about medical research," he added. He doubted that there would be any cutback as a direct result of the House Government Operations Committee report...