Word: result
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Nixon moved to counter such criticism, sending one of his top advisers to brief the press. There had been, said the adviser in a background session, no significant (meaning not more than 10%) increase in battalion-size operations. Continuing high U.S. casualty totals in Viet Nam were the result, rather, of continued Communist offensives. Though admitting that figures on U.S. military operations in Viet Nam have always been of an "illusionary nature," he nonetheless cited some. In a typical week, when 35 to 40 enemy attacks are launched, some 150 to 200 Americans are likely to die. When...
...Earlier this year, an automatic mail sorter went haywire in a large Midwestern city with the result that eastbound mail was sent west. Several hundred thousand pounds of mail were shipped before the error was discovered...
...specific concern may be air pollution caused by auto exhausts, and the dangers of pesticides such as DDT. Undoubtedly the council will also concern itself with establishing basic environmental policies. If the new group can fulfill its mandate and win congressional cooperation, progressive national legislation controlling pollution will result. If not, and pollution continues unabated, the question could become one of survival rather than esthetics...
...bring no new program, no easy remedies or simple slogans. From this mission may result new U.S. policies, but this mission does not bring them with it. Let us talk frankly about what is bad and what is good, of hard realities, not only of pleasant things...
...available, he believes, "pornographic books and pictures very quickly become boring and distasteful to adults with a normal sexual life." He is backed up by a four-member professional commission that spent two years studying the subject. The public's interest in pornography, he maintains, is mostly "the result of curiosity about what is forbidden...