Word: sustainable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortunate in having an economy so richly productive as to sustain a most powerful defense without impairment of human values. Without this military strength our efforts to provide a shield for freedom and to preserve and strengthen peace would be futile. We are determined that in quality and power this force shall forever be kept adequate for our security needs until the conference table can replace the battlefield as the arbiter of world affairs...
...millions are underfed, badly housed and racked by disease. The average life expectancy of an Indian at birth is 32 years and five months. Hundreds of thousands are homeless, and live, make love, sleep and die on city sidewalks, or in and around railway stations. Food that might sustain them is casually devoured by more than 50 million monkeys and some 50 million cattle roaming unchecked through the land. In the midst of poverty, there are polo-playing maharajahs who are among the world's richest men. And there are Indian millionaires who religiously feed ants to show their...
...Caring nothing for variety or any other of life's spices, the computer solemnly accepted the facts that a man must have certain minimum quantities of protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus and five vitamins. Then its nerve cells went to work, concluded that only four foods are needed to sustain life: lard, beef liver, orange juice and soybean meal...
...with inertial flywheels (which are inefficient on earth because of atmospheric friction), and control his heating during the −200° F. cold lunar nights. He could, adds Physicist Singer, extract water from rock; then from the water, by means of electrolysis, could come oxygen to sustain him, and hydrogen for fuels and chemical synthesis, and for growing food by hydroponics...
Later, a toxicologist for American Cyanamid, which markets the controversial weed-killer, stated that a person "would have to consume 15,000 pounds of contaminated cranberries a day for many years" to sustain ill effects. Belatedly, Flemming's Department dispatched a hundred chemists to separate the good cranberries from...