Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Civil commitment for narcotics addicts, a year-old presidential proposal for a medical rather than criminal approach to the drug problem, plus establishment of clinics in major cities to train local law-enforcement officials in narcotics control...
...short, drinking water unsafe. It was a time when people looked to their government for action, and the Communist regime of Rumania was quick to respond. Fully half the citizens of Oradea, a city of 110,000 hard by the Hungarian border, were lining the streets when the train from Bucharest chuffed to a halt...
...racing away from earth, Schmidt realized, the wave length of its light would be lengthened - just as the wave length of sound from a train's whistle lengthens (thereby dropping in pitch) as it speeds away from a listener at the railroad station. Such an effect on light is known to astronomers as a "red shift" because it moves the characteristic lines of spectral light toward the red, longer wave length end of the spectrum...
...train, the subway, the telephone, the telegraph, and eventually the automobile, foreshortened distances; the countryside beckoned, and people sick of inner-city congestion rushed in hordes to the cool green plots of suburbia...
...Cliffie enthusiasts train for three hours a week at the Bay State Judo Club in Newton and are coached by Dorothy Douglas, an honest-to-God black belt...