Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Editor Neal, a 1945 West Point graduate who later resigned his commission to run the family newspaper, says that he is all for a traffic crackdown, but he insists that New's method will simply clog the court with jury trials, while cops who must testify on their days off will merely stop making arrests. Judge New, who has disqualified himself for Neal's forthcoming nonjury trial, argues that, nonetheless, Neal has no right to predict future court actions. "If, in fact, I had sent a little old lady to jail for driving too slow, he could editorialize...
...problem is everywhere to behold-in fly-filled villages, along dusty bullock paths, in the dismal density of city tenements-millions of people trapped in desperate squalor. In the hope of ending all this, India has struggled ineffectually for years to promote family planning. The rhythm method proved too complicated for a 75% illiterate population. To help women keep track of the days of the month, the government devised a handy string of beads (green for safe days, black for unsafe). Children upset the arithmetic by toying with the beads. Some women mistook the strings for a charm against conception...
...breaking up the Common Market. What Paris does want is to reshape the EEC's structure. Above all, De Gaulle wants to trim the wings of the Eurocrats, stop what one French official angrily described as the "supranational escalation in the commission's daily method of action." A rarely aroused Hallstein retorted in a speech at Düsseldorf that, if De Gaulle throttled the Common Market's drive toward unity, "this would be the greatest destructive act in the history of Europe, and even the free world, since the days of Hitler." Which only caused Paris...
...bright rouge was replaced by the merest tint of color brushed on the cheekbone to accent the eye. Now eyebrows have to go. Cosmeticians have decided they are merely distracting. Short of shaving them off (shaved brows sometimes won't grow back), the experts are advocating any camouflage method: bleaching, masking them with foundation creams, or even covering them up with a fringe of bangs...
...large barges stowed in its hold; when the mother ship approached port, giant deck cranes would lift off the barges, which would then easily maneuver into port. Meanwhile, the mother ship would lift on a fresh load of barges and turn right around for another voyage. By this method, Prudential estimates, cargo would be loaded at the rate of 1,000 tons an hour, compared to 1,000 tons a day loaded on conventional cargo ships...