Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Street types and Rockefeller Foundation board members like Cy Vance and Mike Blumenthal. Where's this rural savant from anyway? Atlanta? Atlanta's where you go to make plane connections to somewhere important, like Miami Beach. And now, in the space of about a month, The New York Post--bang! New York magazine--zap! The Village Voice--good Lord, The Voice, for chrissakes--whoosh! All whisked away like lumps of hair and grease in the Draino commercials, sold off to some Australian. Not since young Citizen Hearst blew out of California 80 years ago to buy, with his daddy...
...giant primordial atom. The debris of the fireball, like the fragments of a titanic bomb, is still speeding outward from this cataclysmic blast, which started the process that produces not only stars and planets but also the complex structures of life. This startling concept, called the big bang theory, picked up its first substantial scientific support in 1929, when Astronomer Edwin Hubble used shifts in the spectral lines of light emanating from distant galaxies to calculate that the islands of stars are moving at tremendous speeds away from the earth−and from each other−like dots painted...
...Indeed, there are places where the observer who knows what to look for can practically see stars forming before his eyes. These star wombs are great clouds of gas and dust floating in interstellar space. Like the clouds that formed in the expanding primordial fireball shortly after the big bang, they consist mostly of nature's simplest molecule, hydrogen. A star is born when some force, perhaps a shock wave, drives enough of the hydrogen molecules in a cloud sufficiently close to one another that they are held together by their mutual gravity. As a result, a huge pocket...
...office building at closing time−when mankind has fulfilled its purpose and determined all the names of God. In fact, stars do go out, but for reasons that are much more complex, and in a variety of ways: some end with a whimper, others with a bang...
...miles away] and go to church, and nobody knows anything about it." Billy is also a family man; the beer hour never prevents him from sitting down to dinner with Sybil and their six children, who range in age from three months to 20 years. He is also a bang-up businessman, who in the past six years has raised the gross of the family peanut business from $800,000 to $4 million plus...