Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They've met what they considered defeat," said Muskie, "and they're on the threshold of disillusionment. The worst thing we can do is throw cold water on their expectations...
...cities that killed 46 people, injured 2,600, and required 55,000 troops to restore order. In June came the second Kennedy assassination, an unbelievable replay of the first, including a blind-chance killer, a meaningless motive, and national grief for a dramatic young leader cut down at the threshold of his powers...
...upbeat report claiming that nearly 3,000,000 Americans-1,000,000 of them nonwhite-climbed out of poverty in 1967. In the War on Poverty's first three years, said the report, "1,700,000 whites and more than 700,000 nonwhites a year crossed the threshold compared with an average of 840,000 whites and 80,000 nonwhites each year in 1959-64." The statistics, while impressive, may prove porous armor for OEO against its opponents once Congress reconvenes...
What to Say? Individuals vary in their sensitivity to loud noise. Lebo estimates that 10% of the people in such a hall would show no effects, 80% would have their hearing threshold raised by five to 30 db, and 10% would suffer a 40-db impairment, at least temporarily. As for permanent damage, some might suffer it after a week or two of steady listening, while others could take it for a year...
...Though some national commercials may be only at the threshold of pain, the local variety tests the steel of man's capacity to endure. A local "30-minute" news program consists of twelve minutes of news and weather and 18 minutes of commercial blight. The deluge of drivel is often highlighted by a car dealer's hypocritical, Bible-waving sign-off: "Gaw bless ya 'n' yore luvved...