Word: swifter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partement when the prisons were shut down in 1946, is bidding to redeem its past through a promising future. The reason: equatorial Guiana is strategically located for the space age. At its latitude of 5° north, the surface velocity of the rotating earth is much swifter than at Cape Kennedy, which is at latitude 28° north. Thus, a rocket fired in Guiana can lift about 24% more payload with the same thrust than one fired at Cape Kennedy. Moreover, Guiana has a 120° stretch of open water north and east of it that is ideal for polar...
...airline executives think would be the most effective deterrent to the crimes: a bilateral agreement between Cuba and the U.S. to return skyjackers to America for prosecution, which could result in sentences ranging from 20 years' imprisonment to death. However, they may at least result in the swifter return of the skyjacked passengers, crews and planes. Frank Loy, deputy assistant secretary of state for transportation and telecommunications, told a congressional committee last week that Castro is "fed up" with the skyjackings. If they continue at their present rate, he said, the Cuban government "may adopt measures...
...Bundestag debated the problem for most of its opening session, then voted by a large majority to require from every conscientious objector some form of alternate service-as male nurses, Red Cross helpers, gatekeepers or maintenance men. The deputies also called for swifter processes to muster out of uniform those objectors whose presence in the Bundeswehr might damage their fellow soldiers' morale...
Community Treatment. The real way to change criminal behavior is to goad losers into earning the self-respect that they lack in the first place. Menninger would abolish today's moralistic "punishment" for the few, which simply deepens their hostility. Along with far swifter police work, he favors a therapeutic approach. Trials should mainly determine the facts of a crime, ignore the defense of "legal insanity" and bar the squabbling rival psychiatrists who now only serve to confuse the proceedings. Instead, judges before sentencing should be provided with psychiatric reports and (as in California) hand out only indeterminate sentences...
...become hunters to survive. In the swift pace of the hunt, those with the least body hair became least overheated and ran down the most game; through a process of evolutionary selection, man gradually shed his furry coat entirely. Those who competed most effectively with the stronger and swifter carnivores of the open spaces were those who began to walk and run in an upright position, increasing their speed and freeing their hands to grasp weapons of the hunt. Those who learned to outsmart their four-legged competitors were the ones whose brains grew larger and whose maturation rate slowed...