Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest concern must be with our own planet. Here we face the danger that large-scale engineering projects which give us a short-term gain may carry with them long-term ecological consequences which are distinctly harmful. We must make sure, therefore, that our concern with the environment will keep pace with our technical capabilities. Human activities -whether by neglect or by accident or by intent-are constantly damaging the environment: Lake Erie might be called exhibit A; the Santa Barbara oil disaster, exhibit B; and there are many more examples. In addition, subtle changes are taking place...
...increase, the public use of obscenity. No one throws a bomb that has no bang. Take the example of Esquire, which published Norman Mailer's scatological novel An American Dream five years ago (but asked Novelist Bernard Malamud last fall to change two obscene phrases in a short story; he refused, and the Atlantic printed the story and the two phrases). "We're using four-letter words less and less just because they've surfaced," says Editor Harold Hayes. "They're losing their force." This spring he plans to publish an article on that subject entitled...
...short, no one really knows whether the minds of blacks and whites are genetically different. If they are, the words "inferior" and "superior" have no meaning when applied to such differences, and the differences say nothing about the potential intelligence of the two groups. And finally, the differences themselves could change or disappear over time...
...Mark scored the first on a classic one-on-one situation. The junior wing took a pass from Gurry, and flew around the U.N.H. defenseman for a clear shot. Mark closed in on Metzer, and, after freezing the goal tender with fakes, flipped a short backhander into...
...PUBLICATION of the CAB Examiner's Report is the culmination of years of controversy. Complaints from other airlines had been vociferous in the past but short-lived; 24 of them, including all 11 domestic trunk lines, eventually dropped one of the two systems, and 14 tried to convince the Examiner to retain...