Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yossarian's mind circles five times to that instant in which McWatt calls out, "Help him!" Each time Yossarian's arc of memory lengthens as he bends to aid the mortally wounded Snowden ?until at last he sees the man's flesh torn away and his insides pour out. It is at once the film's most repulsive and instructive moment. From that time Yossarian cannot accept the escape bargain his superiors finally offer him: "All you have to do is like us." He cannot betray his fellow victims of what Norman Mailer called "exquisite totalitarianism." It is then...
...much radioactive uranium, thorium and potassium as comparable amounts of other moon material and was the oldest lunar specimen yet obtained. Radioactive dating tests made by Caltech Geologist Gerald Wasserburg indicated that the rock was formed 4.6 billion years ago-around the time that the moon and the planets arc believed to have been created. Scientists hope that further examination of the rock will provide new insight into the formation of the solar system...
Pressing on, the Carr Mill experimenters talked a fireman into climbing a fire-engine ladder and, from a height of 70 feet, tossing eggs in a gentle arc down onto the grass. Seven out of ten eggs survived. Now the sky was the limit. The insatiable headmaster made contact with the R.A.F. liaison officer at the nearby U.S. air base at Burton Wood. Soon an American helicopter (at a cost of $400 per hour) was hovering 150 feet over the school grounds, dropping eggs onto the lawn. Only three out of 18 were broken...
...almost entirely free (only 13 kilowatts of electricity are needed to operate the mirrors). More important, the furnace gives off what he calls "aristocratic" or uncontaminating heat; there is, for example, none of the adulterating carbon that is produced by the hot electrodes in ordinary high-intensity electric arc furnaces. Thus the solar oven is ideal for the production of chemically pure materials...
...Oscar time and, like moths to the flame, the chauffeured limousines glided through Beverly Hills and homed in on a giant arc light piercing the California night. As they arrived, the stars fussed with their see-through dresses, tie-dyes and black ties and then paraded up a red-carpeted walkway. The path did not lead, however, to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the 42nd annual Academy Award presentations. The setting instead was 9492 Rembert Lane and the occasion the "42nd Annual Mitchell Academy of Arts and Games" -actually the second annual gathering of a rump group of Hollywood headliners...