Word: fractionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco architect got his first fraction of an ounce of pot as a gift. He and his date did a ham-handed job of rolling joints that dripped leaves at both ends. Somehow they smoked them. What happened? "Exactly nothing. The next night we rolled four joints and got down to some serious smoking. After about 20 minutes, I began to feel slightly high, as though I was beginning to be high on alcohol. My head and feet felt lighter. It felt like I was walking wobbly-which, it turned out, wasn...
...remained an impenetrable figure. His faintly Oriental face was a calm mask for the tensions that surged unceasingly within him. Yet he was the bravest man I ever knew in public life. During the terrible days that followed upon the school desegregation ruling, no white Southerner ever matched a fraction of his courage. To watch one of his marches was to sense the awesome power of strong character combined with high purpose. This is the way it must have been, one reflected, when the early Christians braved the hate and ridicule of Rome...
...could do anything we wanted if we had the money," Goldhaber said, "but although we may be the wealthiest private dental school in the country, the yearly income from this source is only a fraction of the appropriation obtained by state schools...
...yard high hurdles produced more excitement than even the most optimistic fans had anticipated. McCullouch, a flanker on USC's championship team, jumped to his usually fast start. But Flowers, a pass receiver from Tennessee, demonstrated more football skill as he lunged and tumbled past the tape a fraction of a second ahead of his rival. Flowers' time of 7.0 tied McCullouch's NCAA indoor record...
Jodrell Bank Astronomer Bernard Lovell suggests that the observed pulsations "must involve a large fraction of the total energy available in a star like the sun." Thus, he says, "any intelligent beings who were ever in the neighborhood of such events would have been extinguished long ago." But some astronomers feel that they must investigate pulsars more closely before absolutely ruling out the possibility that they are creations of an intelligent race...