Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel that the plethora of Watergate evils disclosed so far and the admission of secret bombing in Cambodia have only confirmed that the youthful skeptics were accurate. With so much fuel for the fire, why have the protests ended? The answer is easy. You can bang your head against the wall only so long before it begins to hurt. I hope the pain will end soon, so that we can start putting our young and old heads together and bang anew...
Clearly, such an object would have caused far more cataclysmic damage than the Siberian explosion. But in recent years several scientists have proposed the existence of tiny black holes even smaller than a speck of dust. Some of these may have been formed in the so-called "big bang"-the great explosion that cosmologists believe marked the birth of the universe some 10 to 15 billion years ago. Others could be fragments from collisions between larger black holes...
...archpoetic rebel and social critic, Auden was all bang and no whim per. The infected society "needs death, death of the grain . . . Death of the old gang." Nobody was better than he at describing a private attack of the hoo-has, personal angst, and a public sense of doom wrapped...
...reassures everyone,) and Cosmic Debris, who claims to be an old friend of Uncle Harold ("Poor old Harold," he sniffs miserably. "Sometimes I think all he ever lived for were the mangoes and the potted palms.") As in any other farce, the plot finally comes unravelled with a bang--four, in fact. Afterwards, two women--Funny Uncle Harold's nieces--come on stage, make the survivors carry off the bodies, and offer a sort of moral: "You know the old saying: Put seven men in a room, and nine will come out dead...
...animals refuse to cooperate even under conditions that seem ideal−to the human eye. Durrell recalls the case of a Congo peacock and peahen that kept trying unsuccessfully to mate. "One day I noticed that their feathers were getting too dry, so we sprayed them with water. Suddenly, bang! Success!" Durrell also warns against expecting animals to take an automatic liking to each other. "We humans seem to think we have a monopoly on love. How would you feel if you were locked for 30 years in a cage with a partner you couldn't stand...