Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ritual: "As wealth is the test of poverty, business the test of faithfulness, honors the test of humility, feasts the test of temperance, pleasures the test of chastity, so ceremonies are the tests of the righteousness of faith...
...Nashville speech, the President told of his visit earlier in the day to Andrew Jackson's historic Hermitage. "In our time, as in his, history conspires to test the American will," he said. "Two years ago, we were forced to choose between major commitments in defense of South Viet Nam or retreat in the face of subversion and external assault. Andrew Jackson would never have been surprised with the choice we made...
Geneticist Maimon J. Cohen and his colleagues were making a highly preliminary report. They had found this phenomenon in the blood of only three people. From two healthy subjects they drew blood, then grew the white cells in the test tube. When LSD, in varying concentrations, was added for durations of four to 48 hours, the number of broken or otherwise damaged chromosomes was increased as much as tenfold over the small number usually found in healthy cells...
Anderson's sight gag becomes howlingly funny when the first auditioner (Martin Balsam) appears. Anxious for the part but puzzled by its demands, the actor agrees to become fatter or thinner, remove his toupee, shave his chest-anything. As the real test of his abilities becomes clear to him, he begins to unbutton his shorts with a what-the-hell bravado. But life's little irony is that the playwright has fled, being the sort of man who cannot bear a dirty joke, let alone cast a nude male...
About two weeks later the scout sent me a psychological test--with a lot of word matching--which the Dallas Cowboys wanted. I sent it back and got a nice letter from them which said I was a 'top priority' choice. Three weeks before the draft they called me and asked if I had been contacted by a Canadian team. When I told them I'd gotten a letter from the Toronto Argonauts they advised me to wait for the American draft, which I was going to do anyway...