Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carrying his analysis further, McCord discovered that the forces that acted on Triton to make it sink to its present orbit will continue to affect the larger moon at an accelerating rate. Tides raised on Neptune's surface by the pull of Triton's gravity exert a drag on the satellite that causes its orbit to decay. The tidal action on Neptune also creates friction that dissipates energy from the rotating Neptune-Triton system, further depressing Triton's orbit...
There are limits, in any case, to just what the U.S. can do in Asia. It cannot-and, in fact, does not want to-exert control over the political and social life of Asian nations. Despite the fact that both India and Pakistan largely depend on American aid for their viability, for example, Washington failed in its efforts to end last year's Indo-Pakistani war. But in the national life-or-death issue of survival in the face of Communist subversion in Asia, only the U.S. is powerful enough to check the Chinese export and exploitation of revolutions...
Still, Lyndon Johnson intends to exert all the influence at his command to re pay Democrats who have done their best to support his Great Society programs. This week, with a Labor Day speech in Detroit, the President sets out in earnest on a campaign trail that will carry him to all 50 states before...
...need doing. He himself once said: "Any man who reads beyond the second paragraph of the city charter would be out of his mind to run for mayor." But Yorty ran and won, and he has shown by his actions as mayor that, when he wants to, he can exert a good deal more power and responsibility than he admits to having. Despite his faults and his constant feuds-Angelenos tend to be either 100% for him or 100% against him-Yorty has, in fact, stamped himself as a better-than-average mayor in a city that has a tradition...
...controversy began even before the hearing. The American Civil Liberties Union, which supplied a half-dozen lawyers to represent twelve hostile witnesses, brought suit in Federal Court to prevent the questioning of witnesses on constitutional grounds. The A.C.L.U. charged, even before the hearing opened, that it would exert "an immediate and irreparable chilling effect" on the witnesses' rights under the First Amendment. A longtime challenger of the committee, the A.C.L.U. did not really have much hope of stopping the hearing. But, to nearly everyone's astonishment, District Court Judge Howard Corcoran granted a temporary restraining order to allow...