Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promote majority African rule by means of the physical elimination of a reactionary white minority. The war in Vietnam is not wrong simply because American policy operates against the probable wishes of the majority of the Vietnamese people; it is pernicious because war itself is an immoral and obsolete method of solving international conflicts...
...newly converted non-smoker, Fieser wants to warn the young people of the nation. He would like to give the rights to his autobiographical book, "The Scientific Method" to the American Cancer Society in return for their incorporating in it the personal story of his case and distributing it to high schools across the country...
...scene of the crime. Clueless after a search of several hours, he turned to leave the hut-and saw on the door, dramatized by a splash of sunlight, the blood-brown print of a human thumb. Alvarez promptly recalled some reports he had heard of a new method of identification based on fingerprints, and within an hour, assisted only by an ink pad and a magnifying glass, he had triumphantly identified the killer of the children: their mother...
...FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY, says Thorwald, is the most troubled of the detective disciplines. The principal problem: chemists have developed new poisons more rapidly than toxicologists have developed methods of detecting them. At the beginning of the 19th century, the big bugaboo was arsenous oxide (also known as "inheritance powder"), a poison that caused symptoms indistinguishable from those of cholera. In 1832, a simple method was developed to detect the arsenic in a cadaver. But by then the chemists had discovered the vegetable alkaloids-morphine, strychnine, cocaine, nicotine, quinine and so on. These poisons seemed to dissolve without a trace...
...Menotti work is quite different. It is not a burlesque, but a fable, and its content and method are more complex. Two forces oppose each other: a group of highly conventional townspeople, and a strange young man. The young man--a poet--intrudes upon the townspeoples' Sunday strolling, introducing first a unicorn, then a gorgon, and finally a manticore. Each time, the people ridicule him, but promptly imitate him. As soon as each household has acquired a unicorn, the poet's dream is reduced to a fashionable banality. As he introduces each new beast, the poet says he has killed...