Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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TACTICAL nuclear bombs, if developed and mass-produced, would "rationalize" and strengthen America's war machine to an unprecedented degree. And they would enable that machine to undertake almost limitless counter-insurgency activity, should the need arise. It all seems so obvious. Even Richard Nixon once suggested it, as early...
...many in the U.S., the only sheriffs left ride the limitless wastes of TV. But sheriffs thrive in most of the nation's 3,049 counties, many as political bigwigs, some as serious law enforcers. Of those who ran for office last week, a few seemed more than routine...
Once he has established the reality of this limitless destructive force, Lifton examines men's reaction to it, which comes mostly in terms of an abandonment of the sense of immortality-of the ability to extend the parameters of life and death. Man conceives of immortality in five ways: the biological, in which man lives on through his offspring; the theological, in which he attempts to create a life after death; the creative, in which he attempts to build monuments to himself through his works; the sense developed by some, like the Shintoists, who see themselves as a part...
...growing indefinitely. In fact, such sea staples as California sardines, Northwest Pacific salmon and Barents Sea cod -not to mention the beleaguered whale -are already rapidly dwindling. Contrary to the myth, Fisheries Biologist William Ricker recently warned, in a National Academy of Sciences report, the sea is not "a limitless reservoir of food energy...
...predominantly white force to curb crime in a black city but also cope with Washington's frequent mass demonstrations, such as last weekend's Honor America Day (see THE NATION). A tall North Carolinian of 42, Wilson is a self-educated man with a slow drawl, a quick mind, limitless cool?and a brutal candor that is almost unique among the nation's defensive bluecoats. His men often feel so dejected, he admits, that "there's a tendency to say, 'Oh well, just another robbery,' and not respond as we should...