Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sums up the spirit of the production: too much of an only partially good thing. Fields and Chodrov have written a funny play but they have sacrificed the chance to make Daniel Ponder into a really appealing or meaningful human being in order to milk him for laughs. Their method is unscrupulous, and the result is not quite satisfactory...
...present crisis of indifference, Gruenther understands that no alliance is stronger than the will to support it. "We can stand criticism, but we cannot stand indifference," he says. His method is to expound to anyone who will listen-to groups of manufacturers, parliamentarians, schoolgirl choirs-the necessity, importance, and stature of NATO...
Socialism has modified the old capitalist method into the present system which appears to be working well. Dos Passos emphasized, however, that this doesn't mean that it always will. The socialist technique has brought us up to this point, he said, but it is no longer the solution to the world's problems...
...make the missile slow down as much as possible when it is in the thin upper air, where the heating effect is still moderate. When it hits thick air, it will therefore be moving more slowly and have a better chance of getting through to the target. Another method, probably the most important one, is to keep heat from penetrating more than the skin of the missile. A third possibility, exploding the warhead while many miles above the surface, is not acceptable to the ICBM-men. The great thermonuclear charge might still have a blast-and-heat effect...
...know which drug to use. If they take a specimen from a patient, e.g., sputum, spinal fluid, they can grow the bacteria from it and eventually identify them, but this takes about a week. In Atlanta, Bacteriologist Max D. Moody of the U.S. Public Health Service described a method for achieving this result within an hour...