Word: scatteration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scatter-gun, wholesale accusations are not the way to protect academic freedom. Instead, the universities should fight each case, individually, as it comes up. In the pages of this issue is some record of cases that have been fought by administrations, but many more that have not been. The universities must realize that the perfect case will never come. There will not be situations in which a man's guilt or innocence is so clear-cut or that a choice is easy. If a university will refuse to fight until it finds conclusive evidence of a man's innocence...
This practical approach does not stop at teaching. In the middle of every winter Bard students scatter almost literally to "the four winds" to take up jobs in industry and business for their Field Period. The Field Period consists of seven or eight weeks between the Fall and Spring terms and has been set up, according to the Bard catalogue, primarily "to afford the student a practical introduction to a profession or vocation in which he has an interest." The student may do this either for pay or voluntarily...
...punch through the satellite's skin. Since each pound of metal contains more than a million such particles, a warhead weighing 8,000 Ibs. would punch 8.000 holes in the satellite station. The deadly little particles would be moving in slightly elliptical orbits around the earth. They would scatter widely, then concentrate again. Each time the damaged satellite circled the earth, it would run into the cloud of particles at the same point in its orbit, get 8,000 more hits, and soon begin to look like a cheese grater...
...northern India's state of Uttar Pradesh last week, Moslem trappers working in teams of four set out their nets before dawn. While three hid, one man walked to a clump .of trees. Loudly he called "Ao! ao! ao!" (Come! come! come!), and began to scatter grain. Rhesus monkeys scrambled down and followed his grain trail. When the monkeys got to the grain in the trap, a hidden operator pulled a cord and meshed them in the netting, an average dozen at a time...
...hundreds of priests and sanyasis, as they have done for centuries, will mount the scaffolding holding clay pots full of milk and melted butter. To the sound of flutes and drums, they will pour milk and butter over Gomateswara's head. Then, the anointing accomplished, the faithful will scatter back to their homes across the breadth of India, for another 15 years or so, until the next Mahamastakabhisheka...