Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coleman, tenor sax, pull together perfectly to express a variety of moods-from the quiet swirling sound of Little One to the growling agitation of Eye of the Hurricane. Survival of the Fittest features a Hancock solo that pits one hand against the other in a sort of riptide effect...
...struck by too many unhappy similarities in attitude between white South Africans and Americans. I hope that with the aid of enlightened governmental legislation within the next generation, I shall never again hear statements similar to the one made by a four-year-old neighborhood child to the effect that she is glad not to be colored because "Negroes aren't people." FREDI HÜBLER Old Tappan...
...Communist world and to avoid any sign of weakness, they have flatly rejected appeals from Westerners-especially from Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson last July-to help in launching negotiations that would end the war. "If you want to talk peace," they have said, in effect, "go to Hanoi." For their part, Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, while scathingly denouncing Hanoi, Peking and Communists in general on the question of Viet Nam, have consistently treated Russia with circumspection, taking care to burn no bridges to Moscow...
Plague has no significant effect on U.S. troops, since every man receives two shots before arriving in Viet Nam and boosters every four months. For Vietnamese living under government control, vaccine and treatment are almost always near by. But for the enemy Viet Cong, North Vietnamese troops, and those living in V.C.-held areas, the plague may well become a more deadly killer than either side expected...
...wife believe that the Asian male fireflies' synchronous flashing is actually a photic call that lures females to the trees for mass mating. Because the Asian undergrowth is so dense, the male insects use rhythmic beaconing in order to shine through and be seen by the females. In effect, the synchronous flashing becomes mass advertising...