Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure can be taken precisely in feet and inches, but he also has a far less exact psychological, or perceived, height. In the eye of the be holder, he may seem taller or shorter in direct proportion to his title or accomplishments. So says Australian Psychologist Paul R. Wilson in the Journal of Social Psychology...
...scars on his forehead and right palm and could pass for 40, Ray's age. John Willard, 42, the name used by the man who rented the room in Memphis 13 paces away from the bathroom where King's assassin hid, is an insurance adjuster who is shorter and slighter than Ray's 5-ft. 9-in., 175-lb. frame, but looks not unlike him. Paul Bridgman, an educator, and Ramon George Sneyd, a policeman, whose names Ray used after he arrived in Toronto, are both 35 and have Ray's build. Police are still puzzling...
Robert F. Kennedy reached the pinacle of Amereican political power as his brother's Attorney General largely on his effectiveness as a successful electoral manager and analyst. John F. Kennedy's younger, shorter, and more shy brother gained initial fame as the chief strategist of two victories--in the 1952 Massachusetts Senate race and in the 1960 Presidential campaign...
Convalescence, once a slow and leisurely period, keeps getting shorter. For highly practical reasons, surgeons continue to cut down the time their patients spend recuperating in the hospital. For one thing, the faster a patient goes home, the less likely he is to pick up a secondary infection from others in the hospital. For another, home atmosphere is considered more conducive to healing in many cases. Most pressing these days is the scarcity of hospital beds. The shorter the average hospital stay, the faster a bed becomes available to others...
Asia is short on specific plans-shorter still on capital-for economic development. There is no dearth, however, of physical or human resources. Its technical advisers in Viet Nam have proved that Taiwan has the kind of electric power, harbor development and agricultural experts necessary for rebuilding war's ruins. Malaysia can join in the reconstruction effort with timber and cement, South Korea with textiles and fertilizer. Indonesia, potentially a major Asian supplier of oil and copper, is even now busily luring the foreign investment necessary to exploit its rich natural resources...