Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faculty, calls first for negotiation, then for police. Many college presidents are reluctant to spell out their tactics clearly in advance, presumably on the theory that uncertainty keeps dissidents off balance. Granville Sawyer, president of predominantly black Texas Southern University, for example, says that his approach involves "a gradual increase of pressure and force until the situation is resolved. I won't tell you how long we would let them occupy a building, but it certainly wouldn't be 24 hours...
...knowledge that he can always look forward to hearing another beep, the smoker can control himself between signals. But soon the friendly beeper - triggered by radio signals sent out by the telephone company - lets him down, slowly decreasing his consumption by four cigarettes each week. The decrease is so gradual that withdrawal symptoms are minimal...
...cameraman, be it an auto accident, an angry group of black militants, or the lingering hopelessness of ghetto life, he retreats behind the shopworn shield of journalistic objectivity, insisting that his only concern is to get the story. The progress of his love affair with the widow parallels the gradual weakening of his own prejudices and defenses, until both are finally trapped in the ultimate cataclysm of the convention's madness...
...estimated the concentration of methane as "no more than a few parts per million." In the earth's atmosphere, the amount is about 1.5 p.p.m.-and added rather jovially that among the terrestrial sources of methane are marsh gas and bovine flatulence, both of which result from the gradual deterioration of vegetable matter...
...whole thing," says Johanna Book, a striking blonde of 32. "I had been running away from my problems " The key to the group's therapeutic effect is the shift it encourages from widow to single woman. The process can take six months or more, and involves a gradual emancipation from the first shock and later depression, self-recrimination, self-pity and feeling of helplessness. With the group serving as a sounding board, the widows-who are in different phases of "grief reaction"-first voice their pent-up feelings and then focus on the future...