Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colonialism" have argued that this policy was dictated primarily by the need to eject the old European colonial Powers from Africa and Asia. That having accomplished this task with the debacle and dissolution of the old Empires, the United States took fright at what it discerned as a "power vacuum" which it feared might be filled by indigenous revolutionary forces or the Soviet Union or a combination of both forces. At this juncture American anti-colonalism faded out, and the United States "stepped into" the presumed vacuum. Professor Rotberg's work in "anti-British political movements in Africa" is surely...
...presidential soft sell, the lowered voice and the low silhouette had produced the impression of a vacuum in Washington. Now Richard Nixon is reacting against this feeling of drift. Under the pressure of events, he has begun to exhort and to "jawbone." The pace is still hardly breakneck or the mood galvanic compared with those of more activist Presidents, but Nixon is clearly determined to reassert a sense of leadership...
...prevent such a failure from happening again, the Observatory scientists checked the OSO-VI transformer for gas bubbles while keeping it sealed in a vacuum chamber for a month. They also added an extra circuit that automatically turns the telescope off when too much electric power is produced. The satellite can be turned back on again once the danger is past...
...that objectivity is a lost cause. You can't make a statement about the world without assuming, either implicitly or explicitly, the rightness or the goodness of certain values- and statements containing value-assumptions are by definition subjective, not objective. Intellectual knowledge does not exist in a moral vacuum- or in an ivory tower. Neither its discovery nor its application is carried out objectively...
...delicate relations with the Soviet Union and China. For that matter, he will probably be allowed to tamper with very little. To avert a bruising struggle for the succession, the contenders have quite deliberately removed the presidency from the arena. Until North Viet Nam's power vacuum is filled, "Uncle Ton," as Thang is sometimes called, is expected to do little more than urge unity and praise the late Uncle...