Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffman suggested some form of direct "relief" for victims of foreign competition. Secretary of State Dean Acheson agreed that "very substantial steps" would be necessary. Said Acheson: "I should not think we could say: 'Well, we must do it and the chips will have to fall, and whoever suffers will have to suffer." I should think it would be a matter of governmental concern to see that help was given where help was needed, within the United States, to adjust to these new situations...
...cause for smiling be found, organized madness might soon grip the country. A popular old song informs us that "there are smiles that make us blue." A wave of melancholia caused by such smiling could easily start a wave of suicides. People obliged to smile through their tears would suffer deeprooted psychic conflicts, as well as possible internal drowning. Smiling during a cold snap could easily result in little-known maladies such as frozen teeth and gums...
...further University policy that needs to be changed is nowhere to be found in print. Athletes suffer from discrimination at the hands of Harvard officials, whether the policy is explicit or not. Alumni in the boondocks--the men who meet the athletes before any Cambridge emissary--say that the word "football" on an application hurts a man more than it helps him. This is tough to pin down, impossible to localize, but it is true. It must be stopped, and explicitly stopped; a definite policy statement is needed on this if on no other part of the Harvard athletic situation...
Good quality demands that all the parts of a phonograph be high fidelity and it is here that most standard phonographs suffer. An amplifier that goes up to 15,000 cycles is useless when the needle cannot pick up anything over 6000. Good amplifiers are often found hooked up to poor speakers or changers. The versatility of custom-built arrangements does away with this problem...
...large; it may be too small. Theoretically, a pound of hydrogen turned into helium yields about seven times as much energy as a pound of fissioning uranium, and very large quantities can be used. Uranium bombs must not be too big or they will explode spontaneously. Hydrogen bombs would suffer from no such limit. Theoretically, a single bomb filling a whole ship could be exploded in an unsuspecting enemy's harbor. Such an explosion would rank as an astronomical event...