Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East Room was like a bear pit with over 200 newsmen and women shrieking and roaring for attention, jostling each other as they leaped up and down signaling frantically for the President's attention, ignoring the previous questions and the incomplete answers to press their own divergent points...
...showed that tunneling can also take place in superconductors, materials that lose all resistance to electrical currents when chilled close to absolute zero. In 1962 Josephson, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Cambridge, applied the mathematics of modern quantum physics to predict two significant effects that now bear his name: 1) that electrons can tunnel back and forth through an insulator separating adjacent superconductors even when there is no voltage present-an idea totally at odds with the behavior of electricity at ordinary temperature; and 2) that if a voltage is applied across layers of superconductors and insulators...
Recently these architectural anarchists have been at work putting up hundreds of houses from Oregon to New Mexico. They are most active in the exurbs of the San Francisco Bay Area, where counterculture instincts still bear strange fruit. In Marin County, scores of rebels-cum-saw ignore building codes, hoping that inspectors will ignore them. Attempting to live quietly ever after with their violations, the builders-many of them dropouts from traditional professions-adopt linguistic camouflage. An illegal third story in a tower, for instance, is termed a "storage shelf rather than a bedroom...
...around Radcliffe and in the direction of Peabody Terrace. But few of Cambridge's 80,000-plus residents (down from 110,000 a few decades ago) consider Harvard Square as a focus of their activities. They read the Cambridge Chronicle--not, The Crimson--to keep up with events that bear on their lives. And they communicate their grievances to their City Councilpersons and School Committeepersons. And every two years, they elect new ones...
Brewster Ashenden, hero of The Making of Ashenden, is quite the opposite. One of the world's richest and most civilized men, he hungers after refinement. Ashenden does not, like Main, take life by the throat. It grabs him. Specifically, he is raped by a bear-a ridiculous fate but one that seems appropriate to break through the charmed circle of Ashenden's life...