Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth was that no one had a certain answer. But in the evenings when it was time for brandy and cigars, any person attuned to national politics had to admit to a budding excitement over the prospects that be fore the new year was out, the capital might be shaken more than it had been in several decades...
...case, offer asylum to murderers-terrorism will continue. "Who gives a damn for Carlos-or for all the Carloses?" asked a frustrated Israeli official. "The real question is: What are we, the civilized countries, doing to stop him or them?" That is still a question without an answer...
...miles of ice, at an elevation of more than 9,000 ft., the base is a unique high-altitude observatory that makes possible a variety of important geophysical measurements. These include soundings of the upper atmosphere, monitoring of auroral displays ("the southern lights"), and other observations that may answer many questions about the earth's day-to-day weather and overall climate. In a new experiment, for instance, scientists from the University of California at Davis are seeking to learn precisely how the polar region-a so-called heat sink-sheds the excess energy it receives from...
Safe and Efficient. Half a year after they started, Friedman and Hutchisson had their answer. Tests on both animal and human blood indicated that the new machine was not only safe but efficient at cleansing the blood. After only four weeks of instruction, the plucky Mrs. Berman, who is president of the nonprofit National Association of Patients on Hemodialysis and Transplantation Inc. (N.A.P.H.T.), headed West with her 24-lb. suitcase kidney and 15 Ibs. of accessories (including container and dialyzing mix). The machine worked without a hitch. She dialyzed five times-in motel rooms and even on a friend...
Aristotle's answer was that pity and terror purged the emotions and left the heart light. Freud thought stories of "the uncanny" released repressed anxiety-real toads come out to play in imaginary gardens. A modern German theologian, Rudolf Otto, was convinced that the goose flesh people feel at horror movies was the symptom of primitive religious experience. But a close look at the history of the fear trip-as Pop-Sociologist Les Daniels demonstrates in this witty catalogue of Who's Who in Horror-suggests more immediate historical reasons...