Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people, all participants in the occupation attempt had received eight-hour training sessions in civil disobedience, with an emphasis on getting the point of the protest across without provoking police. There were strict groundrules: no alcohol, no drugs; no destruction of LILCO property, and above all, no running--that might cause panic...
While for the most part accepting SHAD's policy of nonviolent protest, some expressed impatience with the American anti-nuclear movement and waned that future protests might not be so peaceful. Many were new to the movement, joining after the Three Mile Island accident in March, and this was their first protest. They mixed with old vets, who wore buttons proclaiming earlier arrests at Seabrook, N.H., or Rocky Flats, Colorado. About half the protesters went limp to emphasize their non-cooperation...
...drugs during pregnancy can endanger the health of their offspring. Indeed, doctors have long assumed that the mother alone is responsible for chemically induced birth defects. The father was considered blameless. At worst, a male's lifestyle-whether he took drugs, for example, or smoked or drank-might affect his own health but not that of his child. Now some doctors are beginning to suspect that dad's habits may be as damaging to the unborn child...
Just how such drugs could exert an influence through the male is something of a mystery. Soyka speculates that the chemicals might do their dirty work in a number of ways: by damaging sperm during or after their development; by changing the character of the seminal fluid, in which the sperm are transported; or by so altering mating habits that the changed male behavior might engender harmful hormonal changes in the female...
Pity all those readers who had to suffer through its prolonged and tedious adolescence. History's original biographer was Plutarch, who lived, appropriately, in the 1st century A.D. If the definition is stretched a little, the entire New Testament might be considered an example of the art. The first real biography in English, however, did not come until 1791, when James Boswell published his Life of Johnson, which is still the classic by which all others are judged. "Be there a thousand lives, my great curiosity has stomach for 'em all," exclaimed Boswell; his nosy exuberance sends...