Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compared with last year's overwhelming 25-2 triumph, was a disappointment. Harvard fencers looked lackluster and sloppy, and seemed to believe far too much the pre-match buildup of their invincibility. The SMU squad, with nothing to lose and everything to gain, was not overawed by the Crimson press clippings, and put up a surprisingly good fight for three-fourths of the match...
Scientists have known that the buildup of stresses in the earth before dangerous quakes is often accompanied by slight changes in the magnetism of local rock. But there have been few measurements of that geopiezomagnetic effect before or during actual quakes. With more data like those gathered during Cannikin, Hasbrouck and Allen hope, scientists should be able to determine accurately the relationship between accumulated stress and the magnetic changes in an earthquake zone. Then, by monitoring the magnetic field, they may well be able to forecast serious upheavals...
...purpose of last week's B-26 mission, part of a six-week test being conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was to prevent the buildup of electrical potential during a storm, and thus to prevent the occurrence of damaging lightning. Like iron filings near a bar magnet, the 4-in.-long, hair-thin fibers, when released in a thunderhead, align themselves with the lines of force in the electrical field of the cloud. What is more, negative and positive charges build up at opposite ends of the fibers, creating miniature electrical fields and ionizing...
...well-disciplined, paramilitary organization fed up with Nixon's broken promises and deceit, which is clearly expressed by his secret buildup of forces in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia," began Sibley's statement. He went on to say that United Air Lines was a "major contributor to the war effort," and he threatened to destroy not only the plane he had hijacked but the entire United fleet. "It is those who support and encourage this war who should be prosecuted, not us," the hijacker wrote...
...deterred droves of style-conscious short men from buying high heels. But there is equal appeal, strangely enough, to those of average height and taller -even towering basketball players like 7-ft. 1-in. Wilt Chamberlain wear the shoes because they are both fashionable and seem to provide the buildup that comes from looking down at the world. "When I take off my heels," says Chicagoan Kenneth Jarrett, a near six-footer, "I feel like half...