Word: triggering
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Last week the Brooklyn Dodgers faced the Cards again, and this time the pennant--and the Dodgers' none-too-healthy 4 1/2-game lead--was at stake. The Cards were fighting back, late and hard. In the second inning, Jackie Robinson was spiked again--this time by trigger-tempered Catcher Joe Garagiola...
...blacks of Birmingham raised the fundamental question of the 1960s: Who has authority, and why? Six months later, the question was posed again in Dallas, when the squeeze of a trigger snuffed out the life of the world's most powerful man--the ultimate attack on authority. Kennedy's assassination began a nightmarish string that ended with the 1968 slayings of King and Robert Kennedy. Great leaders were called, great leaders were murdered, and great cities burned, baby, burned. And through it all, Vietnam was blazing too, an unwinnable, unfathomable, undeclared war that claimed 57,605 American lives in exchange...
...neither side really wants that trigger to be pulled. For the White House the move invokes the ghost of Nixon; for Starr the ensuing court battles, ending at the Supreme Court, would delay his investigation for months. Starr at least has the legalities of executive privilege on his side. "It's reserved for three things: military or diplomatic secrets, and matters of national security," says McAllister. "You wouldn't expect a court ruling that Monica Lewinsky's sex life falls into any of those areas...
Each of these phenomena can boost or curb the effects of El Nino. But do they influence each other at a deeper level? Does El Nino trigger any of these other cycles? Is it triggered by them? To find out, Fairbanks turned to the Indian Ocean, where sea-surface temperatures, it turns out, rise and fall in response to both the monsoonal cycle and the El Nino cycle...
SWEET VALENTINE Despite chocolate's reputation, a study finds it probably does not trigger migraines. So go ahead, indulge...