Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...empire. Plutarch wrote that a brilliant comet shone for seven nights in the sky over Rome after the assassination of Julius Caesar. In Shakespeare's dramatization of that event, Caesar's wife echoes the same theme: "When beggars die, there are no comets seen. The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes...
...privation to enemies, almost the opposite seemed to be happening. In Britain, Germany, Italy and other nations classified by the Arabs as friendly or neutral, serious energy shortfalls loomed. But in The Netherlands, the one Common Market nation on the Arab embargo list, some Christmas lights continued to blaze and visitors reported hotel rooms occasionally so toasty that windows had to be thrown open. Though the Dutch led Europe in banning Sunday driving, their other conservation measures are actually less stringent than those of some European neighbors...
Preparing for their space walk, the astronauts discovered that the long-johns-type "liquid cooling garments," worn under space suits to keep the astronauts comfortable in the blaze of the sun, had become damp and mildewed since they were last used by the Skylab 2 astronauts. The crew doused the garments with disinfectant and spread them around the workshop like soggy laundry. By morning they had dried...
...seems a peculiarly Western need to determine the indeterminable. Scottish Essayist Thomas Carlyle once noted that man must "always worship something−always see the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite." At the moment, the something worshiped is science, and the something finite is quasar OH471, the blaze marking the edge of the universe. But before the poetic notion of infinity is crushed between the calipers of science, it is best to remember that quasars were discovered only a decade ago. More probably, what astronomers are really viewing is precisely what they have always viewed−the edge of their...
Nineteen months after "I.Q." touched off a blaze among radicals and academics, Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, has added another log to the fire...