Word: unaffectedness
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THE INEVITABLE DOOM of American musical life has been discussed with morbid relish by almost everyone concerned for years now. Composers, still suffering from the complications of the turn-of-the century stylistic crisis, lament the unwillingness of audience and orchestras to accept unfamiliar music. Conductors skillfully transfer the blame...
>Because doctors have no totally accurate way of judging the strength of bone while it knits, they often immobilize broken limbs longer than necessary. Overtime in traction could soon be eliminated, however. John Jurist, a biophysicist, and Dr. Edmund Markey, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Wisconsin Medical School...
Ironically, both Kansas City and Dallas-Fort Worth started building new airports in the mid-1960s, before Congress acted, and both worked out bold new schemes. The key ingredient: empty space. Kansas City bought and took options on 10,400 acres just 17 miles from downtown. The Texas cities dropped...
The Portuguese responded to the uprising with bombs and machine guns. They bombed and strafed much of the countryside, including areas unaffected by the rebellion. In the words of one Baptist missionary. "The savagery of the Portuguese reaction kicked and scattered the fire until the whole of the North was...
But other properties of the laser give military strategists powerful incentives to overcome these difficulties. Ordinary bullets and missiles follow arcing trajectories that must be carefully calculated in advance; laser beams are virtually unaffected by the pull of the earth's gravity or by winds, and fly as straight...