Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ELECTRICITY. Charged car bodies are a natural outgrowth of the cattle prods already popular in law-and-order circles. All persons touching the electrified car or touched by it will get painful shocks. Occupants of the car will be immune. A further extension of antiriot electronics is an electrified water stream that deals out high-voltage shocks to anyone it hits. "Ranges up to 150 ft.," says the colonel, "are considered possible...
...decision to seek an amicable solution of the Tunisian problem was an outgrowth of the new, flexible Vatican diplomacy inaugurated by Pope John XXIII and carried on by Paul VI in Hungary, where he is still seeking to work out a modus vivendi for the Church. Paul has also established a new Secretariat for Non-Christian Religions, headed by Paolo Cardinal Marella of the Curia. In the past, the church has sometimes preferred noisy and heroic martyrdom rather than graceful surrender of ancient privileges. Now Rome, with Christian and Moslem Lebanon acting as intermediary, is trying to work...
...This is oil and water," cracked Italy's new Foreign Minister Giuseppe Saragat. The new center-left coalition, outgrowth of the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) which started almost two years ago, last week finally managed to form a Cabinet. In addition to the premiership, the Christian Democrats wound up with 15 of the 26 Cabinet positions, including the key ministries of Defense, Treasury, and Internal Affairs. Along with the vice premiership, the left-wing Socialists got five more posts, the only important one being the Budget Ministry. Four Cabinet jobs went to the solidly anti-Communist...
Martin Peretz, teaching fellow in Government, presiding at the four-hour-long gathering, urged its membership to dedicate themselves to "new politics in Massachusetts." PAX, an outgrowth of the campaign of H. Stuart Hughes for Senate, will run peace candidates for state and local offices...
...aide cried: "War has been declared in Birmingham. War has been declared on segregation." The Negro leaders intended it to be a particular, pacific kind of war. King had preached Gandhi's nonviolent protest gospel ever since he arrived in Birmingham. The demonstrations were meant to be an outgrowth of the passive sit-ins and bus boycotts mounted in other Southern cities. But not every Negro in Birmingham remained so placid before Bull Connor's ferocity. "Those Black Apes." So there was violence. It began shortly after noon the next day. Connor's cops were relaxed, eating...