Word: shun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veterans are both somber, as their march last night indicated, and raucous, but they can never be found on that middle ground of nonchalance. They are disciplined beyond all possible belief yet shun rigid commands...
...major defeat for his regime. There is also considerable speculation that Hanoi may be facilitating the flow of cheap heroin into South Viet Nam as a means of demoralizing American forces while picking up considerable foreign exchange. With the exception of a few teenage "cowboys" and bar girls, Vietnamese shun heroin, which they regard as declassé and crass compared to opium. Virtually all of it goes into American bloodstreams. In efforts to get Saigon to clamp down on traffickers, the U.S. has already offended the sensitive pride of Vietnamese sovereignty by insisting on stricter customs inspections...
Ungar's experiments are similar. Using shock, he conditions rats to shun the darkness they normally prefer, then makes a broth of their brains. This he injects into the abdominal cavities of mice, which seem to react with a parallel unnatural aversion to the dark. Moreover, the more broth Ungar injects, the faster the mice seem to learn this fear. His theory: the memory message (that darkness should be avoided) is encoded by the rats' DNA-RNA mechanism into an amino-acid chain called a peptide, a small protein that Ungar managed to isolate and then synthesize. His name...
...regarded with bemused contempt by more swinging Columbia students. "It's a place for anal Catholics. They want to preserve you from sin," scoffs one junior, a Catholic himself. As a group, the students are well above average in ability and politically quite conservative; they tend to shun radical activism. But each weekend some 20 residents take turns doing volunteer tutoring at an Opus Dei study center for younger students. Mostly, the residents' zest for service is inner-directed, toward caring for sick Schuylerites or helping dorm mates who have dropped behind in class...
Confrontation politics, an acceptable tactic for those who shun terrorism, had become as American as Mom (partly because some Moms participated too). But for many, the vibrations are now gone. Radical Law Student Ted Siff of the University of Texas says the feeling is, "Why try at all if all you are going to do is maybe get busted and bring on the far right?" The sweeping and angry protests of the Cambodian spring, the resolute demands and plans for restructuring the universities, and the energies expended on getting out the vote?all such events are viewed, despite some evidence...