Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people are freer about private morality, they are becoming more conservative about the public and commercial exploitation of sex. Says he: "It's not that we have no rules, we have new rules. Kiddie porn is not free speech, it's exploitation. When you can't move down the streets because of prostitutes, it looks like hell. Do your own thing, but don't violate my space. A society that can't draw the line opens the way for normative collapse...
...hard to determine exactly how a society acquires or changes such attitudes about itself. The processes of legislature and law move slowly. One unmistakable new element on the scene, however, is President Jimmy Carter, whom 53% of the Yankelovich respondents regarded as providing "strong moral leadership" (13% found him "too righteous"). Carter's influence may take some personal twists, like urging Government employees "who are living in sin" to get married (four of his top aides have done so since his election). On the other hand, the President's personal views can have major political significance...
...single chemical complex, the lipoproteins are part of an intricate transport system. Among the largest and lightest of these globules are the very-low-density lipoproteins (VLDL). They carry some cholesterol but mainly other fats to various parts of the body. The slightly heavier low-density lipoproteins (LDL) move cholesterol from cell to cell, where it is used to produce sex hormones, among other things. Any excess cholesterol is picked up by the heaviest lipoproteins, HDL, which, like garbage trucks, haul it off to the liver for disposal...
...rest of the quarter, the teams slugged it out without a score. Harvard's defense bent badly, but refused to break, while Yale's stingy defenders wouldn't give Brown and company an inch. At one point, Harvard failed to move after recovering an Eli fumble at midfield...
...poet this is a supreme compliment. It implies an ability to move the reader by sheer merits of style, by the sheer force of the words and their arrangement on the page. These two stanzas from the 1936 poem "Cascado" are forceful and by necessity, that is Beckett's necessity, sufficiently cryptic...