Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your writer detected irony in the fact that Drs. Steptoe and Edwards financed the research that culminated in the birth of the first test-tube baby by doing legal abortions. In fact, the two activities spring from the same basic belief: that parenthood should be a matter of choice...
...another step toward an egalitarian America, but he did not have his heart in his speech. He actually sounded as though he were apologizing for the President, and he pointedly told the White House that he would not "twist any wrists" on behalf of the bill. Referring to the fact that Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and other Administration officials were still hotly lobbying for the measure even as the bells summoned Congressmen to their seats, Illinois Republican John Anderson castigated the "late-blooming Blumenthal bill." Enough Democrats agreed, ensuring the measure's defeat...
Stoltzman, in fact, came to the classical clarinet by the unorthodox route of jazz. During his childhood in San Francisco, he and his father, a railroad man with a passion for the tenor sax, would im- provise hymns at Presbyterian Sunday school. "We'd play the main-line melody and then just float in and out of harmonies," he recalls. "That freedom not to play all the notes exactly as they were written was the beginning to me of making music...
...curious history of the Official Secrets Act, which dates from 1896 in Britain and 1939 in Canada. Although, as one former British Attorney General put it, The Act can make it a crime "to report the number of cups of tea consumed per week in a government department," in fact there have been few prosecutions. That is explained partly by intimidation, partly by government restraint and partly by the British and Canadian press's deference to the need for government secrecy...
...advanced weaponry, helped to civilize hominids. But he categorically rejects the idea, espoused by writers like Robert Ardrey (The Territorial Imperative), that hunting eventually turned early man into a killer. Indeed, the preponderance of evidence indicates that primitive humans were far more likely to cooperate than annihilate. The fact that history is filled with battles, says Leakey, "does not mean that the specific activity of war is written into our genes, [any] more than is the specific skill to play the game of football, the specific talent for making fine wine, or the specific inventiveness to design interplanetary rockets...