Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Returning to his laboratory at the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham, Curtiss quickly hit on a way to keep E. coli under control. The microbes must be able to manufacture a protective membrane; without such an outer coat they would swell and burst during normal growth. To keep them from manufacturing a complete coat, Curtiss created an E. coli with a defect in a gene that makes diaminopimelic acid (DAP), an important ingredient of the membrane. The defect made the bugs dependent for their survival upon DAP supplied by scientists...
After Princeton tied the score at four with 15 minutes left in the second half, freshman Sarah Mlesczko took control for the Crimson, pumping three consecutive goals past Tiger netminder Tracey Andrews. The three-goal burst gave Harvard the win and Mlesczko five tallies for the contest...
HARVARD: Scalise has an exceedingly young but talented squad that has looked ragged so far this season. But with a solid effort in the close loss to Penn, and the 12-0 burst that destroyed B.C. Wednesday night, the team seems to be finding itself...
Rising to speak, Frank replied, "Mr. Speaker, it's true, I have introduced bills to legalize pornography, homosexuality and now prostitution but I promise my colleague that when I find something he likes, I'll stop." Despite the burst of laughter from the floor of the House, the bill failed...
...went through this process. The kiln was opened with tongs. The pots were put into a red-hot chamber and did not break. That made me gasp. When they had been in that charcoal half an hour they were taken out; one was plunged into water and did not burst. I saw it red-hot under the water, and I thought, good God, this is something fantastic. This is something I must do. I decided that afternoon that I must become a potter...