Word: recoiling
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...recoil at the prospect of men defending themselves against the state for having committed the unforgivable crimes of achievement and success...
Many conservative physicians recoil in horror from such a suggestion. But more and more investigators are beginning to despair of finding any other way to combat the ravages of heart disease, which results largely, they believe, from overindulgence in foods that are too rich in animal fats and sugar. Of course, no responsible researcher believes that diet is the sole cause of atherosclerosis, the form of coronary artery disease that leads to most heart attacks. Nonetheless, diet seems to be the factor most susceptible to correction...
Snow doubts that mankind will make these efforts. Already, he noted, men recoil in horror from the spectacle of famine in India or Biafra, but do little. "We draw the curtains and take care not to listen to anything which is going on in the streets outside," he said. "We are behaving as though we were in a state of siege." Even if man's quantitative needs can somehow be met, Snow doubts that the quality of civilized life can be maintained if-as demographers widely predict-world population doubles to more than 6 billion...
...Inserted between chapters on Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, is a section on the white race and its heroes. "What has suddenly happened is that the white race has lost its heroes. Worse, its heroes have been revealed as villains and its greatest heroes as the arch-villains." Youths "recoil in shame from the spectacle of cowboys and pioneers--their heroic forefathers whose exploits filled earlier generations with pride--galloping across a movie screen shooting down Indians like Coke bottles...
...iron bars, granite blocks or slabs of concrete. Only requirement is that the gun be kept virtually on top of its target. From a half inch out, it can burrow up to four inches into the toughest stone in less than a minute. It also works underwater, has no recoil, and does its job in uncanny quiet. With his 9-kw. laboratory model for a prototype, says Schumacher, he could easily build a 100-kw. version capable of cutting a wide electronic swath for a variety of industries...