Word: lingers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult to tell just what effect the Watergate affair and other episodes of political sabotage will have upon the presidential election. It may be that the entire issue of dirty tricks will only linger vaguely in the air and then be swept aside in a Nixon triumph. Texas Democrat Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, failed last week in his repeated efforts to open a congressional investigation of Watergate...
Andreski does not linger long in generalities; he documents his charges and spares few of the luminaries of social science in the process. For instance, he finds the patriarch of modern sociology, Talcott Parsons, guilty of "monumental muddleheadedness" and of making "the simplest truth appear unfathomably obscure." What particularly riles Andreski about Parsons is his "voluntaristic theory of action," which in essence states that to understand behavior it is necessary to take into account men's wishes, beliefs, resources and decisions. This idea, writes Andreski, represents "an important step in the mental development of mankind, but it must have...
...advantage over video tape: they can freeze an image on the screen. A viewer can read a book on his TV set and turn pages at his own speed; a teacher can show a recorded lecture to her art class and let the image of Michelangelo's David linger on the screen while she digresses on Renaissance political thought; a golfer can stop Jack Nicklaus' swing just at the point where his own club usually goes awry. Using disks instead of tape does have a disadvantage; a video fan cannot make his own recordings. Both the Sony...
Polar lee. Debus let his gaze linger on the mighty Saturn V rocket beneath the Apollo 17 spaceship. "The Saturn V is the end too," said Debus. "I don't believe we will build a stronger rocket in this century. The Saturn can boost a payload of 200,000 lbs. into orbit. If you want more payload than that, it is cheaper to launch several Saturns than to develop a new rocket...
...began to fill between sets. And the cops cleared them hydraulically, by simply pushing on the front two people in the aisle until everybody had begun to move back. People were remarkably cooperative, as we cruised the aisles afterward suggesting that people go back to their seats, and not linger in the aisles. I ran into one kid quite obviously on the wrong end of some Seconal who wanted to tell me that he, personally, was going to try for the stage...