Word: occur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-known" effect of marijuana did not occur. Many policemen say that they can spot a pothead by the dilation of his pupils. Not so, say the researchers. Or if so, the cause is not marijuana but the fact that potheads have done their smoking in dimly lit rooms, where the pupils naturally dilate. The tests also failed to confirm an assumption that pot causes an increase in appetite by lowering the level of blood sugar. The subjects showed no changes in blood sugar, so why marijuana smokers get so hungry remains a mystery...
...many firms that have not been restricted by the exchange, brokers are also quick to show the door to the speculator whose hankering for cheap stocks usually means a foray into the untidy over-the-counter market, where most of today's stock-delivery foul-ups occur. Says a broker at Chicago's G.H. Walker & Co.: "Frankly, we're going to refuse the guy who wants to buy 1,000 shares of a $1 stock. On the other hand, if he's got $800 for a blue-chip stock, I'd take that business." Since...
Though the ten writers form the vanguard of Styron's critics, he has some rather imposing figures among his supporters, including, for example, Michael Harrington, Eugene Genovese and Norman Podhoretz. In the debate that has developed, several indicative themes occur constantly: What was Turner really like, and who shaped him more, white people or black? What were his motives? Just how bad was slavery, really, and just how much of a people were black people...
...five to 20 days before many of the major earth tremors. By tracking the pole path more regularly, and by placing sensitive instruments along the earth's major fault zones, they suggested, scientists may some day provide advance warning not only on where and when an earthquake will occur, but how severe it will...
...bench is usually an impartial figure who sits above the battle. What happens when a group of judges doff their robes and themselves seek relief in the courts? It does not occur often, but just such a case arose in Michigan this year when the 27 judges of the Third Circuit Court brought a suit against Wayne County. They claimed that the county was illegally denying them enough clerks and probation officers to handle the heavy traffic in their circuit, which includes Detroit...