Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEBBIE Batts can't be beaten,' says the Marquis de Sade." Thus read a Cabot Hall campaign poster displayed by one of the two presidential candidates for the stillborn Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). The poster was something of a shock, though not because of its contents...
...former Governor Orval Faubus, that painted a picture of hell in Arkansas. To maintain discipline, prisoners were beaten with leather straps, blackjacks, hoses. Needles were shoved under their fingernails, and cigarettes were applied to their bodies. For the truly unregenerate, there was the "Tucker telephone," a form of electric-shock torture used by James Bruton, former superintendent of the Tucker prison farm. A prisoner was strapped to a table. Wires leading from an old-fashioned crank telephone were attached to one of his big toes and to his genitals. The crank was spun, and the victim got a series...
...other hand, even enthusiastic language instructors admit that the theoretically valuable educational experience "doesn't take" with some students. Forcing these students to slog through a second year of painful confusion after a bad first year seems a cruel and unnatural punishment. What Dean Ford calls the "cultural shock value" of trying to piece together thought in another language should register almost as strongly on a student after one year as after...
...Freeway Shock Waves. In subsonic flights, an aircraft exerts a pressure disturbance that travels forward at the speed of sound, parting the air ahead so that it will flow relatively smoothly around the plane. Supersonic planes produce the same kind of pressure wave but actually outrace it, causing the air molecules to pile up. This effect, says Cahn, "produces a shock wave like cars slamming into each other on the freeway." To eliminate or reduce the booms caused by these shock waves, the Northrop scientists decided, SSTs would have to be provided with an artificial forward-moving "pressure wave" that...
...electrical charge repulsed them, shoving them out of the way of the model's leading edge. Projected from the leading surfaces of an SST, the scientists hope, a larger and more powerful electrical field will have the same effect, thus preventing or reducing the formation of shock waves...