Word: retarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needle on the accelerometer or "g meter," which gauges the piling up of gravity forces. In a "g suit" hooked up to an automatic air-compressor system, I felt a giant's fist pressing into my belly, two pairs of giant hands around my thighs and calves, to retard the flow of blood to the feet and reduce the risk of blackout. Belatedly I remembered to try the "M1 maneuver"-tensing the abdominal muscles to reduce the blood drainage still more. The g-meter needle crept up past 2 to 3 and on to 4. My normal...
...back in 1819, that the Constitution exempts the Federal Government from state taxation. Setting forth his renowned dictum that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy," Chief Justice John Marshall declared that the states (and, by inference, local governments) "have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress...
...best student is the one who will push himself, and Harvard must provide a framework within which students find encouragement for this sort of activity. Increased requirements and prodding only retard meaningful intellectual development. A reading list and a sheaf of bluebooks cannot produce an educated...
Exhaustive Author Jones counts no fewer than 33 operations (plus endless Xray, radium and diathermy treatments) over the next 16 years. One of the more unusual operations: Freud had himself sterilized (by tying off the major sperm ducts) on the chance that a changed hormone production might retard the growth of the cancer. There is no evidence that it had any such effect...
...Force All the Way?" By week's end the South was moving on to consider what next. Would the 101st Airborne at Little Rock advance integration or retard it? "Little Rock," thought one Negro leader in border-state Missouri, "has put a great number of people, both white and Negro, to thinking. Many consciences have been affected by the sadness of the story, and these consciences will help crystallize action." A Charleston, S.C. moderate disagreed: "Those who believed that integration could be accomplished gradually and peacefully are now convinced that Eisenhower will have to use force...