Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sakharov's 10,000-word essay, entitled "Thoughts on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom," begins with two principles that the author considers axiomatic: that ."the division of mankind threatens it with destruction," and that "intellectual freedom is essential to human society." He then catalogues the clear and present dangers to physical survival: thermonuclear war, hunger, police dictatorship and atmospheric pollution. The threats to intellectual survival, he says, are the propaganda of mass culture, spreading bureaucracy and, again, dictatorship. The world's only hope in overcoming these menaces, he says, lies in a rapprochement between socialist and capitalist...
...Straight Word. Such massive protection is more than justified. There is widespread speculation that King's death was plotted by conspirators who are still free. "He won't finish that trial," a Memphis underworldling warned last week. "He's not going to get on that witness chair-and that's the straight word...
...casting the movie The Best Man, which dealt with two men running for the presidency. I offered a part to Ronald Reagan, who said he was not interested in a small part but that he was interested in playing one of the candidates for President. I then sent back word that I did not think Ronald Reagan would be credible as a national candidate. So much for my gift of prophecy...
Occasionally steam emerges through fissures in the ground called fumaroles (from the Latin word fumariolum; meaning smokehole), and the simplest way to prospect for this geothermal energy is to look for such vaporous leaks in the earth's crust. But in areas where the energy remains trapped underground, geologists must use more sophisticated techniques. One method employs infra-red aerial photography. Since the infra-red film is sensitive to heat, geothermal areas are likely to show up lighter in the picture. Another method measures the earth's electrical conductivity, which increases with the presence of subsurface hot water...
...heeding such a request, a judge will customarily consider all the evidence favorable to the plaintiff, disregard all evidence to the contrary, and decide that even under those circumstances, no reasonable man could find for the plaintiff. Even if the dispute is so onesided that it amounts to "the word of a busload of bishops against the word of the town drunk," says Harvard Law Professor Richard Field, the question must go to a jury...