Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that he was sealing off the Gulf of Aqaba against all Israeli vessels and other ships that might be carrying "strategic" cargo to the Israeli port of Elath (see THE WORLD), Washington acted firmly. In so doing, the U.S. exerted a sobering effect on the excitable antagonists, and may well have helped nudge them back from the brink...
Dope is hardly necessary. Today's competitor has no end of perfectly legal aids. His equipment has improved, with spectacular effects. The old hickory or ash vaulting poles have given way to bamboo, steel, aluminum and fiber glass, and with each change vaulters have soared ever higher, until the world record is now 17 ft. 61 in. - more than a foot and a half above Hamilton's "ultimate" limit. The foot ball has been narrowed and shortened twice since 1930 to make it easier to hold and throw; and each alteration in its shape has contributed...
...that the unhindered escape of air from the bottom of the can-and from the bottom of early experimental craft-made it too inefficient and unstable for any practical use, Cockerell then conceived the idea of constructing craft with double walls and blowing air down between them. This, in effect, produced a peripheral curtain of air that slowed the escape of compressed air under the hovering vehicle...
...example, the South Vietnamese army must be strengthened so that soldiers provide real security in villages rather than sulk in their camps. Then one can crack down on more forms of corruption. The task is to coordinate security with reform; neither alone has much effect. And an army which does its job of security well and knows that its enemy is increasingly demoralized will be more amenable to political reforms...
...effect, moreover, of failure at the polls need be "demoralizing" to Mr. Lardner only if he's built up unrealistic hopes in himself and others beforehand. The price Americans pay for failing to have any kind of historical consciousness is that "success" is defined in terms of immediate payoffs and quick victories. I personally would define "success" as beginning to channel the chaotic energy of Watts and Harlem into political institutions capable of bringing organized power to bear against established political groups. Maybe by 1980 "success" would include victory at the polls, but for now goals must be more limited...