Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deepens and election time rolls around, Volcker may find others, including Carter, carefully keeping a distance from him. Volcker seems willing to absorb the political lightning. There will be plenty of it as the economy reacts to the sweeping reforms announced by the towering and determined man who must test his resolve against the most punishing financial prospects in a decade...
...secular and self-indulgent elements in American culture. Toward the end of the journey, John Paul had turned increasingly to internal Roman Catholic Church issues. On these matters, too, his message was uncompromising. The theme was, in the words of one strategically placed Vatican official, "that all the test and trial after the Second Vatican Council is ended. He doesn't care how much opposition he encounters." Nowhere is that opposition likely to be stronger than in America. While most U.S. Roman Catholics last week basked in the afterglow of his visit, the church's liberal wing...
...observed the survival of his church against heavy pressures in Poland is likely to believe that in the West, too, a disciplined and doctrinally unified church is best equipped to struggle with the evils of society. In America, at least, he may be about to test that judgment...
Above all, Edison invented the first practical electric light, and a power-distribution system that put it cheaply into every home. Like much else about Edison, the precise date is in dispute, but the inventor himself remembered Oct. 21, 1879, as the day on which he began the test of the first successful light bulb...
...novel opens, Kinsman is 21, an idealistic Air Force test pilot. He loves to fly, and he wants to be an astronaut. He is told: "You don't believe they'll actually give you what you want, do you? They'll use you for cannon fodder... They'll put you in a war plane and order you to kill people." Kinsman, already straining his Quaker heritage by joining the military, vows he won't be a pawn of a system he does not like but must deal with to get what he wants--into space...