Word: inhibitions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Surgeon General may have been unaware of the possible ramifications of his directives, for the result of his action will be to inhibit the conduct of routine educational experiments...
...substances known as terpenes and esters, which react with sunlight to form a smog similar to the one produced by man-made pollutants. Terpenes, says Went, like some industrial and automobile pollutants, are "incredibly toxic." In some parts of the West, where they are generated by sage, they actually inhibit the growth of other vegetation...
...truck convoy creeping bumper-to-bumper at night down a North Vietnamese section of the trail. Said he: "Some of these routes are new, some have been widened and upgraded for all-weather truck use. Bypasses have been built, and bamboo-trellised canopies rigged over some jungle roads to inhibit aerial observation." What it boils down to, warned the Defense Secretary, is that the Reds are shifting "from a small-arms guerrilla action against South Viet Nam to a quasi-conventional military action...
...Trips." One reason for the Federal Government's go-slow approach toward controls is its desire not to inhibit legitimate research into mind-manipulating drugs, whose potential for good no one can yet foresee. The NIMH has granted limited amounts of LSD to clinics and research institutes for experimental use in treating such disorders as alcoholism. The new state laws likewise provide for supervised research. But their supporters are convinced that, because of the brain damage and violence that LSD can wreak, society must try to police itself against the drug's unrestrained use. Many psychiatrists agree. Among...
...miles south of Hanoi, one of the three most important supply funnels to the south. The bombs sent huge avalanches cascading into the pass, blocking the vital artery. As a bonus, some of the bombs were equipped with time fuses set to explode days after impact and thus inhibit digging-out operations. The word was that from now on, the B-52s will be used over the north whenever needed. Taking advantage of the traffic piled up behind Mu Gia by the avalanches, U.S. planes periodically bombed and strafed stalled convoys, sending gigantic fireballs into...