Word: threshold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most students are not asking for a Ginsbergian revolution. Although there were a few students who ranted on about how wonderful it felt when you reached the threshold of a high and how, for the exquisite sensation alone, pot should be legalized, most of the sample was more cautious. In general they advanced a defensible argument that society wasn't ready for legalized pot yet, but that in comparison with the evils of liquor and cigarettes, pot was virtually harmless. "While a high sharpens your senses, liquor makes you dull and uncomfortable--especially the morning after." Many of the students...
...market for power reactors.Western Europe has already outdistanced the U.S. in the number of nuclear power installations (29 v. 12), but that is just the beginning. Europe has decided for the future to invest more in nuclear power than in any other means of producing electricity, is on the threshold of making major purchases of equipment. Such U.S. giants as General Electric and Westinghouse, which won an early beachhead for their reactors, are now being strongly challenged by big equipment makers in Britain, Germany, France and Sweden, which claim that their reactors are more economical and efficient than...
Toepfer, who will begin his new job July 1, described the Western Reserve Law School as "a small school at the threshold of considerable growth change." With only an acting dean, it has lacked leadership for several years, he said. Now, he explained, the university has decided to provide "much-needed resources for the law school to grow, develop, and flourish...
...spirit of something very much like friendship. Something having to do with human hearts, something like the faith of the Church had been explored and shared with a white man in the black belt. We gave thanks to the One Whom we had besought as we stepped across the threshold of his office, and quietly savored the Glory of God as we strolled back...
...proud father. "I have," he told newsmen, "today authorized the Army to organize a new division, the Air-mobile Division." To be organized at Fort Benning, Ga., the new 16,000-man outfit will be ready for action by mid-August. Said McNamara: "It places the Army on the threshold of an entirely new approach to the conduct of land battle...