Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first it was the Committee of Fifteen. Everyone understood the function of that committee and a lot of people even knew who was on it. Then the Wilson Committee became prominent because its report was so widely circulated that people began to browse through it in the bathrooms of Lamont. Then it was the Committee of Sixty-Eight, the Committee of Five, the Fainsod Committee, the Friendly Committee, and on ad infinitum...
...praise Davis for having given the game of tennis its proudest trophy in 1900. "It was as if some sage mechanic, looking over a creaking and unbalanced machine, discovered what was missing to make it run and added the one tiny cog which caused the contraption to function in a way undreamed of by its maker...
...were larded with three layers of asphalt and topped with a cementlike finish, all of which made the surface considerably faster than any the Rumanians have ever seen. The tourney was also notably lacking in traditional tennis gentility. While S.D.S. demonstrators chanted outside that the Davis Cup was a "function of the capitalist pigs," the Americans charged that the Rumanians were "rude," and the Rumanians accused court officials of making "strange calls." The matches themselves verged on farce. The U.S. team of Arthur Ashe, Bob Lutz and Stan Smith so thoroughly overpowered the Rumanians that in the final...
...economists. The Chinese deemphasized technology in spurring productivity, and relied instead on applying more manpower. The Cubans appear much more conscious of the need for technology. The Chinese made the mistake of trying to develop industry and agriculture simultaneously, and thus deprived both of enough resources to function. The Cubans are concentrating exclusively on agriculture and the light industry associated with...
...crucial provision of the bill, which has already passed the Senate, forbids the Defense Department to carry out any research unless it "has a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function or operation." Most of the $4.2 million Harvard received in Defense Department grants last year goes for so called "pure research" projects which have no direct military application...