Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Death Wish. Dr. Hill and the Baylor doctors tried everything they could think of. Researchers at Wadley had read of Swedish work with a concentration of AHG known as the Blomback Fraction...
...shovelful, it can't begin to equal a fraction of the tenderness, pity, humanism and dignity evoked from a single painting by a Wyeth, or a Hopper, or a Shahn, or a Broderson, and others of the Outsiders...
...curious voting ritual, a $15.8 billion authorization (only a fraction of the overall defense budget) for military hardware for 1964 was voted upon twice in the House. First, the additional funds for the RS-7O were approved, 226-179. Then an across-the-board cut of $800 million was rejected, 258-149. In the overlap, 69 Congressmen availed themselves of the opportunity to vote both for increased defense and decreased spending...
...Probably much of the audience at Friday evening's concert of music by Boulez, Horatio Appleton Lamb Lecturer 1962-63, would have understood their prudence; for whether one reacts initially with enthusiasm or horror, he knows that, after one hearing or a dozen, he has heard only a tiny fraction of what Boulez' music says. To evaluate a poem is difficult if it is written in a strange tongue...
...West Germany-were immediately receptive to Merchant's proposal. West Germany expressed the warmest interest; the British looked on the scheme with "mild benevolence." But all seven wanted to hear more about it, and allowed that the price was high and the payoff distant. Meanwhile, all but a fraction of the existing Western atomic stockpile would remain under U.S. lock and key. The proposal was coldly received in France, where the Gaullist daily La Nation even dubbed the prospect of a multilateral force "la farce multilatérale." If the Polaris plan had been touted as a significant boost...