Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pathetic that there are still generals who are unable or unwilling to recognize and accept the function of the lawyer in the Army, as evidenced by General Ulmer's remark, "The goddam lawyers are ruining the Army...
While impotence can be a byproduct of the 250,000 prostate operations performed annually in the U.S.-crucial muscles and nerves must be cut in the more radical procedures-sexual function is preserved in most cases. Cant cites the encouraging experience of a 62-year-old friend: after his operation he was able not only to urinate easily but his sexual frequency soared from a painful once a month to a highly satisfying two or three times a week...
...Idaho's 26 ski resorts, only one-Sun Valley-has even begun to function; it has skiing on artificial snow on just 2½ of its 50 runs. And in Colorado, where losses have mounted to $30 million, Senator Floyd Haskell has asked President Ford to declare a natural-disaster area. While awaiting official action, Vail Developer Peter Seibert hired local Ute Indians to perform a ritual snow dance. The results were negligible. Says Seibert: "We're getting a little snow, but it's just enough to cover up the cigarette butts...
Stoller, who has been studying gender identity and sexual perversion, concludes that the same psychic factors found in perversion are also found in the sexual lives of most people: hostility, mystery, risk, illusion, revenge and the reversal of a trauma or frustration. "We try to make the outlandish folk function as scapegoats for the rest of us, but anyone-analyst or other-who collects erotic thoughts knows that many citizens, avowedly heterosexual, conspicuously normal . . . are also filled with hatred and wishes, if not plans, to harm others." The difference between normal person and pervert, he feels, is one of degree...
...Keegan notes that they were safer in masses; to break and run was to become an easy target for French horsemen. Also, the leaders were in the thick of the fighting, where they could see their men and be seen in return. Keegan suggests that the officers' chief function was to be wounded with conspicuous-and inspirational-bravery...