Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within twelve minutes we were over the outskirts of Le Havre. It was 9 a.m. when we broke the sound barrier-Mach 1. Up there it comes with a whimper, not a bang. I had to be told that we had passed Mach 1 cruising at 30,000 feet; we felt only a slight whisper of movement, hardly a shudder, as the plane continued to climb...
...tell them more about the universe than the eye can see. In the past decade, radio astronomers have made a host of discoveries: quasars, pulsars, free-floating molecules in the lonely reaches between the stars. They have even detected what may be a faint echo of the original Big Bang, the great explosion that some scientists think marked the creation of the stars and galaxies...
Gradually the stage fills with weird, masked figures from the mists of prehistory: tribesmen in vast, shaggy costumes thumping drums, bonging gongs, pinging cymbals. Enormous idols appear. Frenzied, the primitives swirl and bang and jabber. The shaman speaks: God demands a sacrifice, the greatest sacrifice is sex, a taboo is born...
...After the experiences of Newark, Detroit and other cities, blacks are painfully aware that riots can be disastrously counterproductive. Some time ago, Chicago's Rev. Jesse Jackson observed sardonically: "Blacks can't win a shooting war when they are talking about bang-bang and the whites are talking about rat-tat-tat-tat-tat and boom-boom-boom." One of the most powerful arguments that black leaders quite properly use to discourage rioting is that violence would only bring about a renewed right-wing backlash, cancel much of the move toward moderation that was evident in last November...
...prevailing view among environmentalists is that if the world does not end with a bang, it will expire with a strangled cough. Ecologist Kenneth Watt says that with auto exhausts increasing nitrogen in the air, "it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable." A positively dissenting view comes from Rene Dubos, brilliant microbiologist and experimental pathologist, author of 15 books and still-working professor emeritus at Manhattan's Rockefeller University. Last week he explained his outlook to TIME Correspondent Alan Anderson...