Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rightly understood" and curbed by political checks and balances. The concept also required a measure of "civic virtue" or "republican morality," which meant a willingness to suspend the pursuit of immediate self-interest to act for the common good. This may always have been more of an ideal than a fact. But today, more than ever, we see growing numbers of individuals and groups simply fighting for their immediate interest and gain, without regard for the goals or even the survival of the society as a whole. That is one cause of the recent pressing series of scandals in Government...
...Moslem conception of paradise made an ideal recruiting device. An account written by Marco Polo reported that Hasan educated the Fida'is to believe every conceivable bodily pleasure awaited them after death. As a foretaste, he had them heavily drugged and transported to magnificent gardens constructed near his palace; there, under the influence of heavy doses of hashish,* the Fida'is were ministered to for several days by beautiful women, then drugged unconscious again and returned to real life convinced they had seen paradise. After that, they would undertake any suicide mission...
This perfectly ill-assorted trio sets out in the Orca, Quint's leaky craft, to bring the marauding great white to his reward. Ideal adversary that he is, the shark proves stronger and more wily than anyone suspected. The men go after him with rifles. They try to slow him down with barrels, fight him, tire him, tow him. In desperation Hooper descends below the surface in a shark cage (the sequence for which Carl Rizzo was hired), armed with a poison gun that will get the job done-if he can shoot it directly into the creature...
...applications for metal oxide semiconductors (MOS)-the tiny components that engineers use to cram extremely complex circuits onto silicon chips less than a quarter of an inch square. MOS had already proved their value in the U.S. space program for which they were developed. They also have certain qualities ideal for use at sea. For one thing, they can be easily sealed in plastic, thus avoiding the problems caused by dampness. For another, they use minuscule amounts of power and can operate for long periods on internal batteries...
...same time as Benito Mussolini marched on Rome and took up the reins of dictatorship. Not even Ethel in her greatest moments of fantasy could have imagined that her third baby would some day come to represent to a nation fighting the Fascism of Hitler and Mussolini the ideal American girl...