Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scientists in the Public Health Service persuaded Congress--and tried to persuade the public--that an influenza epidemic as devastating as that of 1918 was likely to occur this winter. The scientists also claimed that in six months they could produce a safe and effective vaccine to protect against this new strain of influenza...
Although scenes like these occur in all three Dirty Harry films, it seems they lead to a different end in The Enforcer. Dirty Harry and Magnum Force were unadulterated vehicles for themes like "might makes right" and "violence is a great deterrent to crime." The Enforcer, however, can be interpreted as leading to a different conclusion. The revolutionaries, after kidnapping the Mayor of San Francisco and demanding ransom, have holed up in--you guessed it--Alcatraz. Harry and partner arrive, and after an extended gunfight and hide-and-seek game the only survivors are Harry and the Mayor, a pompous...
...conclusion was that there was no doubt that were those trends to continue, then inevitably the lines would cross, and we would be injecting a fundamental instability into the world. Further, you didn't have to wait until we were in an inferior position for that instability to occur...
...always preceded the Oedipus complex; he felt that the drive to love and bear children arises from woman's sense of being mutilated, her feeling of loss. Psychiatrist Henri Parens, for one, reports that his observations of children show that a sense of castration and penis envy sometimes occur after the Oedipal problem...
...Among other stresses and strains are those that occur when a vessel that was empty a few hours before has up to 200,000 tons of oil suddenly poured aboard under rapid loading conditions. At some discharge ports, very big ships can dock only at high tide. Delays can mean the ship sits on her bottom plates in shallow water before the draft can be lightened sufficiently. Such structural strains are repeated and severe, and, coupled with the tremendous rate of corrosion, they shorten the life of the vessels and constantly weaken them...