Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems to occur to nobody that absolute freedom is found best by being nobody in particular...
...extraordinary appearance on television. To sit down with Eric Sevareid of CBS, John Chancellor of NBC and Howard K. Smith of ABC, and plumb live the intricacies of foreign policy for an hour, bespoke presidential confidence -and courage. No tape editor could erase a presidential slip that might occur on the special set at a KABC studio in Hollywood, where the temperature had been lowered on request to 59° before air time. When the red lights of the TV cameras winked on, the President was cool, collected and relaxed...
Enzymes are aptly called the mediators of life. Without these essential proteins, vital chemical reactions would occur far too slowly, if at all. Living things could not grow, digest food, store energy, transmit messages across nerve cells or reproduce. Like laboratory or industrial catalysts, enzymes trigger and speed up chemical reactions without themselves being affected or altered by them. But enzymes can cause these reactions to take place up to a billion times faster than catalysts used in the laboratory or chemical plant...
...accidentally walk through glass doors each year. Some bleed to death before medical aid can arrive. One father testified that he barely managed to stop a glass shard dropping in its casing from falling like a guillotine blade on the neck of his dazed and bleeding son. Serious injuries occur because most doors are made with ordinary glass that can break at a slight blow. The solution is obvious: require that household doors be made with safety glass, which crumbles instead of shattering...
...hard at tasks defined by others is the quality of a submissive creature, and we have always been taught to be more submissive than men. This in no way means that women do not become revolutionaries-indeed, our revolt is all the more profound and authentic when it does occur, because our entire lives have been spent, in a variety of subtle ways, in a service of subservient capacity...