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Word: triggers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking to a sparse and somewhat sullen crowd in Lowell Lecture Hall, Ernest Mandel, a noted Belgian Marxist editor, last night claimed that student demonstrations have started to trigger a worker's revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mandel Sees Student As Revolution Leader | 10/19/1968 | See Source »

...forth daily drivel about happy factory workers, joyous farmers and the blessings of Marxism. They could do little else. Under the censorship rules, the press is forbidden to mention that Czechoslovaks were killed and wounded by the invading armies. It is also forbidden to talk about the damage that trigger-happy Soviet soldiers and their tanks inflicted on Czechoslovak buildings and autos. Above all, there must be no criticism of Warsaw Pact countries or use of the word "occupation." Censors canceled a nationwide TV and radio address by Dubcek one hour before broadcast time because he planned to say that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Where the Captives Forge Their Own Chains | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

Different Shapes. The target of all medications that suppress organ rejections is what the experts call "the transplant antigens," protein molecules that are too small to be seen even with the electron microscope. Apparently they sit on the outside of the body's cells, ready to trigger an antibody reaction and rejection phenomenon if the cells are transplanted, as part of a kidney or heart, into another person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transplants: Beyond the Heart | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party, was invited to lecture to a group of summer trainees at the Xerox Corp. Cleaver told his audience to "liberate" a Xerox machine or two for the Panthers. He looked forward, ultimately, he said to a "black finger on the nuclear trigger." Xerox executives endured the harangue in silence. Whispered a Negro trainee: "Nothing is too insulting for white liberals to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsletters: Subversives Revisited | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...mechanical energy. Thus, say Buehler and Wang, it could be used in fire-extinguisher activators and circuit breakers. "The beauty of Nitinol," says Buehler, "is that it's something you load ahead of time. Then if you put it in the correct temperature range, it pulls the trigger itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metallurgy: The Alloy That Remembers | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

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