Word: expending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...societies genocide appears likely to have been a costly strategy. Recent works by Parker (1975) and Popp and DeVore (in press), based on the same body of theory as is Sociobiology, suggest why this should be so: individuals threatened with death and the death of their kinsmen can adaptively expend far more energy in self-defense than can individuals threatened only with the loss of a valuable resource...
...often happens when hassles like this break out, people get so busy taking a position that they lose sight of the fact that the object of their contention is not worth the hot air they expend on it. In the case of Coonskin, a slovenly ineptitude of design and execution, not a desire to affront, should be the subject of all the debate...
Would that Writer Belson and Director Ritchie had exercised the same discretion, or perhaps developed some genuine sympathy for the exploited young women. They might even have at tempted the more difficult task of probing the psyches of the grown men and women who voluntarily expend time and energy organizing these events and share the illusion that the contests are "a good thing" for their communities...
...chant. He is no committed revolutionary. When Sam finally addresses the opaque petition window, his ominous "petition for more space" becomes a simple request to increase his sleeping area by one foot in width and one foot in length to the maximum allowed by law. He complains, "I expend so much physical and psychic energy pushing against people and limits that I am always too tired to do quickly the things I need and want to do." The window replies. "True for everyone, Petition denied...
...america latino stems, no doubt, from the experiment in democratic socialism conducted in Chile by President Salvador Allende. But interest runs much deeper than that as more and more people are studying Spanish and general Latin American history. A new generation of American wanderers, turning to the south to expend their wanderlust in place of the traditional Europe, travel not only to Santiago but also to Quito and Lima, to the Brazilian northwest and the Andean highlands. American students talk not only of Allende but also of Peron and Echevarria...