Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been called by a man named Clay Bertrand the day after the assassination and asked to defend Lee Harvey Oswald; previously, he had told the FBI that he had made the whole story up. Ever since Garrison's inquiry started, the oddball lawyer has bounced in arid out with such a mixture of contradictions and dislocated hip talk that few knew or cared what he was trying to say. Garrison kept track, though. When the D.A. charged Clay Shaw with being Clay Bertrand and part of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy, Andrews at first told a grand jury that...
Dating the Moon. Walker's methods have already produced important discoveries. By analyzing fission tracks, Russian scientists recently identified the 104th chemical element, named Khurchatorium, arid U.S. research scientists spotted the phenomenon of triple fission-the splitting of a nucleus into three roughly equal parts. General Electric scientists have irradiated thin strips of plastic, etched the fission tracks with acid, and produced a material of great potential medical significance-a sensitive sieve that duplicates the filtering capacity of human membranes...
...even in junior size. Besides being a scholar, critic, translator, chess player, lepidopterist and eccentric, he is one of those relatively rare writers who in the midst of their career have been able to alter the language of their craft. Above all, he is a unique artificer in the arid world of contemporary fiction...
Like New Jersey, Chile has dense fogs, which move in from the Pacific nearly every evening. Even so, some of the country's northern areas are among the most arid in the world, receiving practically no rainfall despite their moisture-laden atmosphere. Observing that the fog collected into drops on nylon lines, scientists at the Northern University of Chile in Antofagasta constructed wood and metal frames strung with vertical strands of nylon and set them up on nearby hills. As the fog was blown through the frames by the evening wind, it formed water droplets on the strands that...
...figure that they could take over part of Fannie Mae's job if Congress would allow them to make loans above today's 75% limit when backed with private FHA-type insurance. Other proposals include lifting the self-defeating 6% interest ceiling on FHA and VA loans, arid devising European-style mortgages with interest rates that fluctuate with the money market. Few stand much chance of quick adoption...