Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard had tied the score, 2-2, late in the first quarter when attacker David Kramer curled a bounce shot past Bruin netminder Steve Ayers. But with 1:32 gone in the second period, Bruin attacker Richard Tuohey flicked a point-blank shot past a lunging Miller to give Brown the lead...
...involved, however, in the present re-examination of Stalin. Journalists and scholars seem genuinely eager to drop their traditional roles as perpetuators of useful historical myths and instead tell the painful truth. Gorbachev gave the signal in a February 1987 speech inviting them to fill in the "blank spots" in Soviet history, and writers have responded with everything from weighty historical tomes to popular entertainments...
...time is ticking away. They yell, "the decision you make today will effect the rest of your life. The job you have this summer will open up opportunities in your career." A horrible figure appears in my dreams, laughing at me and ponting at my resume. It's a blank sheet of paper...
Genome? The word evokes a blank stare from most Americans, whose taxes will largely support the project's estimated $3 billion cost. Explains biochemist Robert Sinsheimer of the University of California at Santa Barbara: "The human genome is the complete set of instructions for making a human being." Those instructions are tucked into the nucleus of each of the human body's 100 trillion cells* and written in the language of deoxyribonucleic acid, the fabled DNA molecule...
...editorial and advertising pages each week so they make a smoothly readable magazine. TIME's advertising staff immediately told Japanese advertisers that they were free, if they wished, to cancel ads in that issue as a mark of deference. Several Japanese companies did so, leaving three blank pages. Within hours Quiggle rejuggled the book, as it is called, into a successful new combination. "Every week brings a unique set of problems," she says. "The trick is to solve them quickly...