Word: function
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Actually, Spaak needed little urging to leave NATO. He has long felt stymied in his efforts to extend NATO beyond what the U.S. and several other Western powers feel is its proper function as a defensive military alliance. They have blocked Spaak's efforts to mold NATO into a political and economic force capable of combating Communist infiltration in Africa and Asia, argued that NATO is not the proper organization for economic enterprise. At the NATO ministers' meeting last December, Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lord Home, vetoed a suggestion for NATO aid to underdeveloped nations, said that...
...nowadays often apply the name to nontubercular, nonfatal adrenal insufficiency. That, Kennedy's doctors say, is what he has, and until several years ago he took desoxycorticosterone and cortisone to make up the lack. He still takes other corticosteroids by mouth, although his last tests showed his adrenal function to be normal...
...enable at least part of humanity to beat this rap, Cole proposes the development of giant spaceships, each of which would contain at least 10,000 individual humans who would function rather like the cells of a multicelled animal; collectively, they would constitute what Cole calls a unit of "macrolife." Stowed along with the humans in the vast body of the macroorganism would be domestic animals, plants, raw materials, machines and computers, as well as microfilms of all the books in the Library of Congress. A fully developed unit of macrolife would have rocket propulsion to enable it to move...
...Clement meant the elect. Clement borrowed the Platonic idea of the superiority of the soul to the body-"the body tills the ground and hastens to it, but the soul presses on to God. Trained in the true philosophy, it hastens to its relatives above." The function of the church, thought Clement, is to train the soul for the return home...
Portraitist's Protest. By the time Lorrain died in Rome in 1682, all France had become the servant of Louis XIV, then halfway through his 72-year reign. The function of the artist was to glorify the Sun King, often as a Roman emperor or a god; and the King had his own esthetic dictator to see that this was done...