Word: align
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recruiters allegedly went right into the schools, threatening harm to the students or their parents if they failed to align themselves with the Stones. "This gang thing has gone far enough," said one outraged father. Burrell, who is against white intervention, would like to hear similar expressions of black anger more often. "What the police have to do," he says, "is stand out of the way and let black men deal with their sons." If the revulsion against gang violence in the Chicago ghetto continues, this could well happen...
Koshland's theory seems to provide the answer to the enigma. The reason that enzymes are so effective, he suggests, is that they hold a molecule's constituent atoms at the proper orientation for joining. By this "orbital steering," he explains, enzymes align the outermost electrons spinning around each atom so that they can readily be shared with other atoms. Such electron sharing is at the heart of all chemical reactions...
...slowly and with control, he would gradually increase the speed and fervor of his remarks until he reached a shrill, unintelligible climax which would be drowned out in the applause of the moderate group, and the angry cries of the PL members. He said PL did not want to align with any sell outs, and then accused PL of feeling that everyone was a sellout except themselves...
Several times during the debate, disillusioned participants who evidently had not expected such invective among the factions, got up and said how disappointed they were. One man said, "If I were to choose a group with which to align myself after seeing what went on here. I would choose to join the janitors in the wings...
...Philadelphia at a meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Ceramist Gene Haertling and Electrical Engineer Cecil Land explained the secret of the ce-ramic's unusual behavior. Tiny crystals in the ceramic-packed some 100 million to the square inch-respond to electric voltage much as iron filings align themselves in a magnetic field. High voltage causes many of the crystals to change their orientation; low voltage affects only a few. By reversing the voltage, the change can be erased. That accounts for the color change; the ceramic is transparent only to a narrow range of light frequencies...