Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the many casual rumors circulating about the course are more myth than reality. All applicants have heard stories about the dangers involved in taking the class, so of course they tend to latch on to the incidents of aggression when they arise as proof that their fears were justified. As one section leader in the course commented, "most of the people who are afraid of ending up 'casualties' of Soc Rel 120, are usually those who are most afraid of their own aggressive tendencies; they are more concerned with hurting someone and exposing themselves, than with being hurt...
Ever since the Roman Empire declined and fell, assorted theorists have used the event as proof of their own notions about society's most important ills. Now a new study contends that Rome's collapse was not due to self-satisfied apathy, gluttony, homosexuality, or any other social evil. In a speech at the Third International Congress of Human Genetics in Chicago last week, Sociologist Seabury Colum Gilfillan suggested that the Roman aristocracy died off in large part because of nothing more glamorous than simple lead poisoning...
Gordon's troubles, similar to those encountered by Astronaut Eugene Cernan on the flight of Gemini 9, were proof to NASA officials that the mere effort of controlling arm and leg movements during a weightless space walk in a bulky space suit is far more trying than anyone had imagined. As a result, future space flights will probably schedule less ambitious space-walking chores...
Compared to Orbiter's lunar exploits, last week's suborbital flight of the Apollo moonship seemed humdrum indeed -an almost old-fashioned journey only three-quarters of the way around the world. But that brief, 94-minute flight was final proof that the craft and its systems are spaceworthy, and that a novel re-entry technique is feasible. Apollo's success set the stage for a three-man, 14-day orbital flight as early as next December...
...more than ready to believe. Every time there is a crisis in the Congo or bloodshed in Nigeria, the whites nod knowingly and tell each other that "you can't expect anything else from the bloody kaffirs." Kwame Nkrumah's tyrannical rule over Ghana was hailed as proof that Africans were still too uncivilized to run their own affairs, but when he was overthrown, the military coup was cited as another example of political immaturity...