Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound field of 120 decibels (common near the tail pipe of a jet) feels the waves in surprising ways. If he holds out his hand, his fingers get painfully hot whenever they touch one another. If he partially opens his mouth, his nasal cavities may resonate like organ pipes. Sometimes his lower jaw vibrates so strongly that he has to grit his teeth to quiet it down. His ears get hot as they ride the waves; his nostrils get hot too. He may see only vague blurs as his eyeballs dance, and individual muscles resonate like plucked guitar strings...
...From Bolshevik, theoretical organ of the Soviet Communist Party: "The American usurpers, today's cannibals, are wearing uniforms of the American army...
Nevertheless, at 13, Louis Braille was placed in the school, and under the kindly eye of its founder, Valentin Haüy, he did make progress. For one thing, Haüy saw to it that Braille learned to play the organ, and out of the institution's pitiful collection of embossed books, each divided into 20 parts, each part weighing 20 pounds, Haüytaught the boy the rudiments of reading. Though perpetually racked by his cough, Louis proved an able student. "This sad little dark boy," as Haüy called him, became both a teacher...
...Vopos. Aside from the occasional guarding of Red army arsenals, they have no police duties, but live in old Wehrmacht barracks and train in the art of war. Out in the field they rehearse platoon and company maneuvers, learn to operate heavy machine guns and the "Stalin Organ" (a multi-tubed rocket launcher). They have a naval arm of 10,000 and a fledgling air force. The Volkspolizei is a police force that walks like an army...
...Europe were final notice that Western indecision had given way to Western resolution. For once it was a case of the West acting and the Communists reacting. The dove's epitaph had been written in a directive from Moscow published last month in an obscure French party organ, but only last week belatedly recognized for what it was. "Explanations and propaganda for peace," ran the new party line, "are not enough. It is now necessary for a resolute orientation towards action. Action is not improvised by itself." In other words, the day of the hard, disciplined minority and rioting...