Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lower-altitude explosions in the atmosphere would be even more disastrous, Lapp calculates. The detonation of a ten-megaton ICBM by an intercepting Sprint at an altitude of 50,000 feet would produce second-degree skin burns in people over an area as large as 2,000 sq. mi. and cause dry paper to ignite over an area...
...general, Lifton discovered, hibakusha hold themselves in lower esteem than do other Japanese. In telling of the hibakusha experience, the late Yōkō Ōta, Japan's best-known writer of "Abomb" literature (Town of Corpses, Human Rags), depreciated her work and herself with such statements as "Do I have the right to imagination? Can what I say about the dead ever be authentic?" A Japanese professor of English expressed the same idea with lines from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets: "They can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with...
...example, it is common knowledge that Harvard could accept an entire class, all of whose members achieved SAT scores above 700. But Harvard wants diversity and accepts those with lower scores. The same applies to geographic distribution, social class, ethnic background, wonks vs. jocks; Harvard consciously attempts to achieve a diverse student body...
...costs of medical and psychiatric examinations and the costs of lawyers were beyond the reach of the lower classes. As a result, the poor, mainly ghetto Negroes would go first. The outcry here was sensitive and altruistic. Some students gave up their II-S deferments, but, mainly, people waited for the new draft...
...quartet of Trey Burns, Roy Shaw, Jim Baker, and Dave McKelvey streaked around the Garden track in 7:28.1, a scant 1.7 seconds lower than the world record 7:26.4 set by Villanova...