Word: ejection
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Steiner said that the University will file for a preliminary injunction against the occupation Wednesday. He said, however, that obtaining an injunction would not oblige the University to eject the demonstrators forcibly...
Henrik Ibsen kept a live scorpion in an empty beer glass on his writing table. "From time to time the brute would ail; then I would throw in a piece of ripe fruit, on which it would cast itself in a rage and eject its poison; then it was well again." As usual in an Ibsen scene, opera glasses are not needed to recognize the symbolism. Tiny, armored, venomous, Ibsen was an ailing spirit whose dramas stung the 19th century's conscience and gave European theater a new seriousness. After launching into poetic tragedy (Brand, Peer Gynt), Ibsen imported...
...latest SAMOS (satellite and missile observation system), "the Big Bird," launched just two months ago. A giant, twelve-ton spacecraft capable of working aloft for at least several months, the Big Bird combines the capabilities of several earlier satellites. It can transmit high-quality pictures by radio, and eject capsules of exposed film which then drop by parachute. The Big Bird also includes infra-red heat-sensing equipment that allows it to "see" through Siberian ice and snow to locate Soviet underground weapons. The heaviest concentration of long-range Russian missiles, Klass reports, is behind the Urals in Central Asia...
...solve the environmental crisis without solving the resulting social crisis." Commoner argues that once Americans recognize the problems, they will find proper answers through the democratic process. But those answers require hard economic choices: Who should pay for improving the environment? How can a recession-hit town eject polluting plants at the expense of vitally needed jobs...
Prosecuting attorney Douglas Rowe asked for the maximum two-and-a-half-year sentence because Berg and Kilbreth were prepared to use "whatever personal violence was nessary" to eject Watson from University Hall...