Word: blob
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob of Vaseline on the mechanism"). With 250,000 copies of the cubist's book in print, a Penguin executive marvels: "It's the biggest, runaway, immediate success we have had since we published Lady Chatterley's Lover in paperback...
...Astronomical Union's central bureau of telegrams in Cambridge, Mass. Several days later, two dedicated amateur comet hunters, Genichi Araki, 28, a junior high school teacher in rural Japan, and George Alcock, 70, a retired teacher in Britain who has spotted three other new comets, identified the hazy blob in the sky and properly reported it. The astronomical establishment diplomatically honored all three claims by calling the comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock...
...play" occurred after Harvard lined up for the kickoff following its second touchdown in this year's edition of the Game. A big black blob of a balloon burst from the Crimson 46 yard line and began to inflate, halting the contest while large white letters proclaimed the identify of the perpetrator...
Beyond all the square rings and vicious circles, beneath every blob of nose and billow of scar tissue, there is a common majesty, a simple valor-so basic, so appealing, so appalling. Probably every game or type of conflict has it, but the others are not stripped to the waist or the bone. "Kill the quarterback" is mostly a figure of speech. Randall ("Tex") Cobb, a plain-speaking heavyweight, says, "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling...
...least one Harvard official did find the pranks amusing. President Bok called The Blob "a stunning practical joke," adding, "I give them full credit...