Word: transmitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fire houses and two police precinct stations in the zone of silence. Ma Bell also set up 379 temporary pay phones in the 300-sq.-block area. Extra police cars cruised the phoneless area with their rooflights flashing; anyone who had an emergency message could stop them and transmit it by police radio...
...Black people for the past five centuries have been struggling to know, interpret and transmit their heritage to themselves and others. This attempt has been frustrated by a sort of cultural imperialism of the Western societies," Guinier added...
...which for so large a class would create a huge logistical problem, some faculty member or graduate student who specializes on a given author discourses at a weekly meeting of discussion leaders--mostly graduate students from the social sciences, history, or philosophy. In turn it is their job to transmit, by Socratic method in groups of eight or ten, the essense of this lecture and of the readings it deals with...
Raquel Welch's surprisingly pleasant performance is a good example. As a sex symbol Welch was never very sensual because there was something awkward and cold-blooded about her. But the movies she played in never acknowledged this, and she didn't either. She didn't transmit the intelligence of a Jane Fonda, who showed in her eyes that she half-knew she was exploiting and being exploited, and kept flashing a curious dignity above the demeaning roles. But Welch was in on the cheat. Predatory, she'd wriggle up out of the water, reptilian and sleek, looking like...
...functional units of the brain (glia, scientists believe, are largely "filler"), are connected to each other by means of long filaments, or dendrites, and form the body's nerve network. These cells receive sensory impulses, process the myriad bits of information pouring into the brain each moment, and transmit the brain's messages out to the various parts of the body, causing such reactions as the contracting and relaxing of muscles...