Word: followers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given a complete, honest description of everything in the experiment immediately afterward. The purpose of such deception is usually not a sadistic attempt to see how the participant "reacts under pressure," but rather it is to allow researchers to answer questions more important than whether people can follow instructions...
...criticisms of the Carter foreign policy. The problem is that the problems we're dealing with are so immensely complex. Quick solutions are not possible. People expect immediate successes and when that doesn't happen, criticism is bound to follow. People have got to recognize that these are terribly difficult, long-term problems. You've got to give necessary time to work through them and not stick down a thermometer each week and say: What in hell have you done this week? This is true on Panama. I think we are going to get a Panama Canal...
...Jordan, Rockefeller Foundation President John Knowles and World Bank President Robert McNamara-issued a statement on the subject. "There is a risk that the academic freedom of our colleges and universities will one day be compromised by the unrestrained growth of the influence of Government," they warned. What will follow their manifesto remains uncertain, but educators are in a fighting mood. "We're going to have to be tough-minded," says Hopkins' Muller. "We can't count on the Government to be benevolent. We have to be assertive...
Although the limerick form appears in few prosody handbooks, Asimov followed strict, traditional rules. Limericks must have five lines. The first, second and fifth lines must all rhyme, while the third and fourth follow another rhyme (a,a,b,b,a). There are 13 feet, or stressed syllables, to the limerick-no more, no less. The typical foot is an anapest, that is, two unstressed syllables preceding an accented one (da-da-DAH), or sometimes an iamb...
...first thing that they see That allows them the right to be Why they follow it You know what it's called? Bad luck...