Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoffmann pointed to three errors in pronouncements of disarmament groups: an overestimation of the likelihood of war, a mistaken belief in the defensive character and limited objectives of Soviet policy, and an inordinate press on survival as a goal of American region policy...
...almost perfectly level surface, made chiefly of gypsum (natural plaster of Paris), which is firm enough to support the world's heaviest aircraft. Most of the basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin's rim are not frightened by the possibility of a misguided spaceship landing in the middle of town. No other spot in the U.S., says the Bulletin, has the same natural advantages, existing facilities, and willingness...
...Prophet, plainly no mere bird! Is there no foreign country Where to argue freely about art portends no peril sore? Shall I ever reach that region, if such be, and not get shot? . . . Croaked the Raven: Nevermore...
...Pueblo medicine man Popé led an uprising against the Spanish (and the church) in the Southwest in 1680, reconquered the New Mexico territory and held it for twelve years. The savage Ottawa chief Pontiac successfully took all but two British posts in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region; the Shawnees' great Tecumseh envisioned a united Indian nation that would sweep all white men into the seas and died leading his men against General William Henry Harrison near Lake Erie...
...perfect that he yearned to try them on organic matter that had long defied other chemists. He remembered the bombardier beetles, which he had known when his father took him to hear their small artillery on Sunday afternoons. Enlisting his wife and 17 students, Dr. Schildknecht searched a limestone region near Bayreuth and collected a good supply of the beetles. After training himself in the art of insect surgery, he learned how to extract intact the complicated plumbing in their behinds...