Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This rejection of old values doesn't occur everywhere. Many universities, even some of the best, have "strong" student governments. At times these councils of democracy lord it over every conceivable student activity. They finance the drama, publish the newspaper, run the canteens, stage the dances, organize the political forums, etc. The moguls of student government stand at the apex of the single giant pyramid symbolizing campus power, prestige, and success...
...prepared to fight for his ideas and has more energy than the moderate African who is living contentedly with his family and doing his daily work. The extremist is organized. When he calls a strike, and a moderate worker disobeys him, the worker is often beaten up. This can occur when the worker returns from work, or on his way to work, or even in his home. After such treatment, he soon learns to obey the extremist...
...uncomfortable as the next man by the thought that our own legitimate activities in such a place may be spied upon by the police," said the court. Nonetheless, the place is public, and it is properly subject to peephole surveillance because of "the criminal activities that can and do occur in it. People who choose to commit crimes where they may be seen take the chance that they will be seen...
Mysterious Circle. Hawkins believes that Stonehenge astronomy was so advanced that its experts had apparently noted a phenomenon undetected even by modern astronomers: eclipses of the moon occur in cycles of 56 years. Hawkins, who inadvertent'v rediscovered the cycle after running Stonehenge eclipse data throuah a computer, immediately associated it with a mysterious circle of 56 "Aubrey" holes that ring the massive arches. He concluded that the holes formed a primitive eclipse computer. By placing a stone in each of six appropriate holes and moving them at appropriate times one hole around the circle, he decided, the Stonehenge...
...final enactment of any new arrangements, the third stage, would occur at "an appropriate forum for international discussions" Once a consensus is reached in the first stage, the remaining two stages are expected to be mere formalities to satisfy the underdeveloped countries...