Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most G.I.s, the withdrawal is a political rather than a military move, and one that will have little immediate effect on either them or the war. "This business is meant to pacify the folks at home," commented a military policeman in Saigon. "We're going to stay here for a long time." Pfc. Jimmy Poston, born in Guam, a 20-year-old draftee who serves as an assistant gunner in a mortar platoon, is also unfazed. "All the political speeches and stuff don't mean anything when you're over here," he says. "Boy, you know they were talking about...
Rubella's cause and effect were long unsuspected. Not until 1941 did an Australian ophthalmologist, Sir Norman McAlister Gregg (1892-1966), discover that an unusual number of his infant patients, born with cataracts, had been conceived during a 1940 rubella epidemic...
...building larger detectors, for example, astronomers could learn more about pulsars. If they are actually spinning neutron stars, as many astronomers have come to believe, they could be producing the kind of gravitational effect postulated by Einstein. The detection of gravity waves, Weber adds, gives man "a new set of windows for the study of the universe...
...asked for higher taxes, Congress would balk at paying for what some economists now call the "marriage of the warfare and the welfare states." When Johnson belatedly asked for a tax increase in 1967, Congress dallied for ten months before enacting it. By the time the sur charge took effect a year ago, the fed eral deficit had swelled to $25 billion...
...like to get shot." Using a combination of fast cutting and slow motion, Peckinpah creates scenes of uncontrolled frenzy in which the feeling of chaotic violence is almost overwhelming. Where the slow-motion murders in Bonnie and Clyde were balletic, similar scenes in The Wild Bunch have the agonizing effect of prolonging the moment of impact, giving each death its own individual horror. Peckinpah repeatedly suggests that the true victims of violence are the young. Children watch the scenes of brutality and carnage wide-eyed, with little fear; a Mexican mother nurses her child by holding her bandolier aside...