Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million troops does not account for the probability of counter-escalation by the Communists. In the past six months, they have matched escalation with escalation and there is little reason to think they will stop now. For Ho Chi Minh, the battle in the South represents only the latest phase of a twenty-year struggle for national independence. Should the U.S. decide to double or triple its commitment of troops, Hanoi would very likely send considerably larger detachments of its 450,000-man army into the South rather than accept defeat...
...when the measles virus attacks the brain, as it does in an estimated 4,000 U.S. cases of encephalitis each year. Last week, in the Journal of the A.M.A., a team of U.C.L.A. pediatricians reported finding traces of the virus in the nervous system during the active, red-rash phase of the disease. The discovery casts doubt on the idea that encephalitis is an aftereffect, and it lends a sense of urgency to the preventive campaigns...
McNamara has had his jousts with congressional committees before. But never have so many lances been pointed at him at once, and never by such aroused antagonists. Separate subcommittees will investigate 1) McNamara's decision to defer construction projects that he had requested earlier; 2) his plan to phase out two-thirds of the present heavy-bomber force by 1971; 3) all McNamara's research and development projects, present and pending; and 4) his policy of closing or reducing military installations that he regards as surplus. All this will be in addition to the normal annual series...
...filling-up of blood vessels. In addition, the labia minora (the vulva's inner folds) turn bright pink, a process that Dr. Masters compares biologically with changes in female monkeys' exposed "sex skin." A lubricant appears in the vagina. As excitement proceeds to the next phase, the pigmented rings around the nipples (areolae) become engorged and impinge upon the erect nipples. The breasts increase in size by 20% to 25%. ∙PLATEAU. A pink mottling appears over the chest, spreads to the breasts and "actually coalesces in the terminal stages, to suggest an advanced state of measles...
...unusual activity had a serious scientific purpose. The two "tourists" were working for the Federal Aviation Agency, trying to find out what really happens to jet-age travelers when long flights take them across time zones, expanding or condensing days and nights until mind and body get out of phase with the surroundings...