Word: exerting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hypnosis to cure severe asthma does not necessarily show the ailment to be psychological in origin. Many asthma victims act sicker than they really are, but the Scottish patient was a "welladjusted individual" who displayed "no signs of psychiatric breakdown." Rather, says Sinclair-Gieben, it shows that hypnosis can exert a physical as well as psychological effect: "It is widely believed that conditions responding to hypnosis must of necessity be wholly psychologically determined. However, in other conditions-for example, organic pain and warts-it has been demonstrated that hypnosis can influence an accepted physical disease entity. Clearly, hypnosis appears...
...Nigeria stands a giant among Lilliputians; last October, when Nigeria's 40 million people got their independence, the free population of Black Africa jumped 50%. Backed by such numbers, Nigeria's sober voice urging the steady, cautious way to prosperity and national greatness seems destined to exert ever-rising influence in emergent Africa...
Prospective scientists, for example, comprise almost half the entering class, but little more than a quarter graduate as science concentrators. It is true that Harvard does exert various kinds of indirect pressure against science, but the change is also the natural result of the easy form science takes in school. Science is one area where the talented student can show clear and measurable competence and be drawn into a orientation toward college which produces a clear articulation of the relation between education and life...
...high-power beam concentrated on a satellite might exert enough pressure to nudge it to a new orbit...
...moments were tinged with unreality. The egg-thrower, despicable as his act was (he hurled the missile and then dashed out an exit) is not the real enemy of disarmament--nor are his parent right-wing organizations. These people are easy to spot and easy to dislike, but they exert little direct influence over national policy and their mood scarcely reflects the temper of the nation...