Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...educational levels: 75% of all enlisted men are high school graduates v. 48% in 1952; the same percentage of officers have college degrees. In part, also, the Army in 1965 was prepared for war, as it signally was not before World War II or Korea. Nonetheless, the most important element in his performance is undoubtedly the fact that today's soldier undergoes the most intelligent, intensive preparation for battle in Army history...
...matter how much thought backs the melodic line, the audience loses the rhythmic and harmonic context normally provided by other instruments; the solo then sounds like a lot of notes in a vacuum. But Peacock's fast playing, by bringing the notes closer together, adds the harmonic element, almost like broken chords...
...difficulty seemed insurmountable until General Electric scientists went, in effect, to the medicine chest. Iodine, they discovered, is the answer. Dissolved in benzine and mixed with oil, the element reacts immediately with clean titanium and steel, forming a thin film of metallic diiodide that is strong enough to hold two pieces apart. The layers of microscopic diiodide crystals also slide against each other like cards in a deck, allowing the surfaces to move freely...
Clearly in her element, she looked slightly peeved when the telephone interrupted our conversation, for the visionary moment was lost as she plunged into rapid dialogue about an immediate problem. When she hung up the receiver, she took a sip of her scotch and soda, turned to me smiling, and said, "Now, where were we?" Then she plunged into a series of questions concerning the world situation...
Many of the Supreme Court's recent criminal-law decisions have a common element: in one way or another, they reflect the law's discrimination against the poor. They have challenged the adequacy of the bar's long tradition of giving free help through legal-aid societies. Case after case has been a reminder that by waiting for clients to come to them-often in offices far from the slums-legal-aid services have apparently failed to reach vast numbers of people who need them, in civil as well as criminal matters...