Word: element
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comes to aiding their fellow man. This viewpoint is well known to men who served in the Orient and watched victims of accidents dying in the streets because an assister could become financially involved. It is time for the whole American public to get indignant about the criminal element that even invades our homes. Otherwise, we will end as a country without guts or Samaritans...
...exclusive U.S. nuclear umbrella. What NATO has yet to prove is that it can rise to broader, subtler challenges. As Dean Rusk put it: "NATO must adapt itself to a situation in which the Communist threat takes more diversified and sophisticated forms, to a situation in which the cohesive element in this alliance must depend upon something more than an imminent military threat...
...compounding of statistics from air and egg white. What counts as an "activity"? Brushing your teeth? Mowing the lawn with a toy gasoline tractor? If five members of one of Dr. Wylie's families watch Gunsmoke, does the researcher chalk up five activities? This is an important element in the art of making the world sound hollow when it is thumped. Another is the unvarying assumption that no one ever does anything because he likes it. If he goes skiing, it is to show off his wounds; if he gives a party, it is to prove something...
...that a dog owner may collect only his pet's market value. The state Supreme Court disagreed and set a new precedent: "We feel that the affection of a master for his dog is a very real thing, and that the malicious destruction of the pet provides an element of damage for which the owner should recover, irrespective of the value of the animal...
...Bible was reproduced by what Bob Chollar, the company's head of research, calls photochromic micro images, or PCMI. The film has none of the silver halide grains that are the vital element in conventional photographic film; instead there is a very thin layer of a dye that darkens rapidly when exposed to ultraviolet light. The resulting picture has no "grain." Images of Bible pages projected in ultraviolet were reduced by lenses and focused one by one on the dye. After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle...