Word: low
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MacArthur is a peculiar homegrown Yankee product, one of those ingenious cranks who are likely to do the Republic some good-in spite of itself. Hardly had the dam fallen than he was on the phone to Washington, inquiring cheerfully about a low-interest loan. He happened to be (he explained to the voice going uh-huh on the other end) just the American that President Carter always talks about. He was-reverent pause-a small businessman. He also happened to be another of the President's favorite people: an energy-crisis fighter, an advocate and indeed a practitioner...
...soft avowal during the Frost interviews that "I let the American people down" and some gentle self-accusations in his memoirs, appears to have traveled as far as he psychologically can toward contrition. It is possible that he will never forgive either the enemies who brought him low, or himself (those given to psychohistory would argue that they amount to the same thing). Perhaps Nixon will grow old in America as a kind of strange, unregenerate presence viewed with indifference, curiosity or eventually the respect that is accorded, with a short laugh and an incredulous shake of the head...
...make its feelings forcefully plain, Israel sent eight Kfir fighters screaming in over Beirut. The low-flying jets broke the sound barrier, shattering windows and creating panic. The overflight was clearly intended as a warning to the Syrians by the Israelis, who also strengthened their positions along the Golan Heights and their border with Lebanon. Declared Major General Shlomo Gazit, chief of Israeli military intelligence: "Israel will not watch peacefully the Christian massacre in Beirut." In response, the Syrian air force went on alert, and Damascus rushed armored units of its own to the Golan Heights, where its usual three...
Carter rode the rails for all they were worth. Her voice drove effortlessly over octave jumps and lightning arpeggios, dropping into racing scat syllables that taxed its entire range and timbre. She finally chugged home on a slow, low, unresolved chord, leaving the song unfinished until the cheers silenced it for good...
...problem is that lasers produce beams of light so intense that if directed or even reflected into the human eye, they can blister and burn the retina, causing instant and permanent damage. To avoid that possibility, the FDA wants light-show operators to use low-powered lasers and to design the shows so that the beams of light are aimed far above the heads of spectators...