Word: directs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kept from following the extremists. Bob Powell, president of the National Student Association, is pessimistic: "Attempts at persuading the university administrations to change over the years have, by and large, failed. The sentiment now is growing very rapidly that the only way to elicit a response is direct action...
...ller promulgated the "law of specific nerve energies." He suggested that stimulation of specific pain receptors in the skin, like those for heat or pressure, sends impulses along specific nerve fibers to equally specific parts of the spinal cord and brain. This concept has since been called the "direct telephone-line system." The latest research shows that the system is by no means so simple as direct dialing. It is full of crossovers and redundancies, creating the effects of multiple conference calls and party lines...
...often vital to the survival of the species. Man, of course, has the gift of speech. Yet he too is able to signal his moods and thoughts with a nonverbal vocabulary of gestures and expressions. These signals constitute a powerful silent language that is often as effective and direct as speech itself. The unspoken lexicon is becoming a subject of increasing interest to specialists in the new science of ethology (the biology of behavior); it is also providing new views into man's hidden emotional world...
...about $17,000 as manager of planning, a job that will take him into all parts of the company. "I had the opportunity to go into several jobs where it would be pretty much my own ball game, but I did not want that. Either by osmosis or direct learning, I want to find out how you really make a corporation...
...life in an escapeless pit-and gave it both mythic reality and a moral power. Abé's The Face of Another, a novel about a chemist with a burnt-out face who attempts to function behind a life mask he has fashioned for himself, is as direct as any contemporary exploration of the identity-crisis theme. The Ruined Map, his newest novel to be translated into English, involves the Japanese version of a traditional Western private eye, but the view is strictly from an Eastern slant. The suspense is stirred up metaphysically rather than neatly plotted. The landscape...