Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what they could. It was at this point, as stores were picked bare, that most of the firebombs flared and late-arriving looters tended to get arrested. Thus a Washington survey found that most looters who got bail were mature, jobholding family people, but it did not take into account the fact that three out of four of those arrested were juveniles, and that these were quickly released without charge...
Today's fear of violence is rightly aimed at the terrifying anonymity of the big cities-of which 26, containing less than one-fifth of the U.S. population, account for more than half of all violent crimes. But this fear can be localized: violence is overwhelmingly a ghetto phenomenon; it is the slum dweller who suffers most and cries out for better police protection. In Atlanta, for example, the violent-crime rate in neighborhoods with incomes below $3,000 is eight times that among $9,000-income families...
Married. James D. Watson, 40, who shared a 1962 Nobel prize for medicine with two Britons for unraveling the structure of DNA, the heredity-determining molecule, recently disturbed his colleagues by publishing The Double Helix, a gossipy account of the team's feuds and finds; and Elizabeth Lewis, 19, a Radcliffe junior and Watson's secretary at Harvard; both for the first time; in La Jolla, Calif...
Just's detached and determinedly accurate assessment belongs to a tradition of war reporting that traces back to Thucydides, the ancient historian whose account of the Peloponnesian War is depressingly relevant today. Thucydides was no polemicist either, but his message was clear: the exercise of power, however necessary it may seem, can lead a city-state-or a nation-into unforeseen danger...
...bomb project, British Historian David Irving interviewed German scientists, studied recently declassified papers, and discovered a supply of captured German documents that had been lying unused and neglected for many years in an AEC warehouse at Oak Ridge, Tenn. From his meticulous research he has put together a chilling account of a project that might have changed the outcome of the war and reduced London or New York, rather than Hiroshima and Nagasaki to radioactive ashes...