Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When the U.S.S.R.'s first feminist magazine, The Woman and Russia, called Soviet men irresponsible drunkards, the authorities were dismayed. When the underground publication went on to declare that Soviet society "degrades women to the status of a work animal, a sex object and a breeding machine," they became alarmed. Finally, when the feminists called upon wives and mothers to persuade men not to fight in Afghanistan, the KGB felt compelled to move in on the fledgling women's liberation movement. Secret police agents swooped down on the Leningrad apartments of three editors of the magazine and gave...
...been the object of controversy since the announcement in 1977 that President Carter was considering its deployment in Western Europe. He later announced that the U.S. would temporarily shelve production of the neutron bomb in hopes of gaining fresh Soviet concessions in the SALT II negotiations. Meanwhile, a highly emotional debate arose on the "morality" of a weapon that is designed to destroy people but not property...
...knows why but three young and talented men by the names of Jim Abraham, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker decided that there was a pressing need to merge these two schools of film. They chose as their object every diaster movie ever made and the 1957 thriller, "Zero Hour." The twist to all this is that they wanted to make the whole garbled mess funny...
...back that have been plaguing their descendants ever since. Today Ramapithecus' spinal distress is experienced millions of times a day around the world. Indeed, after headaches, pain in the back-usually the lower -is man's most common and intractable physical complaint. It is also the object of intensive investigation by doctors into new ways of curing this most ancient of ailments...
...skin of the chest. To get relief from pain, the patient presses a small radio transmitter against the chest. The transmitter's signal activates the little power plant, which promptly shoots a tiny electrical current into the brain or spine and thus fires critical nerve cells. The object: to release a flow of beta-endorphin, a morphine-like substance produced by the nerve cells that acts as the body's own internal painkiller. With only 15 minutes of such self-stimulation, says Hosobuchi, a victim of chronic low back pain may be able to obtain relief...