Word: carbon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well remember when I received my Social Security card. It still bears the name of my employer at the time. And it is one of the few things I have never lost." Says Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey: "It was obtained so long ago I would have to resort to carbon dating to determine when. But I have never forgotten the number." Says Boston Reporter Lisa Towle: "I recall the day my sixth-grade teacher sat the home-room class down and told us it was time to apply for Social Security cards. I felt so proud, though still not understanding...
DEATH REVEALED. Tom McHale, 40, irreverent writer of baroque novels that raged with comic lunacy and roared through the conflicts of middle-class Irish and Italian Catholics; by his own hand (carbon monoxide poisoning); on March 30; in Pembroke Pines, near Miami. McHale won critical praise for his first novels, Principato (1970) and Farragan's Retreat (1971), but six subsequent novels never reached that early level of achievement...
Right after halftime. Harvard mounted a charge on the Princeton lead. Taking advantage of man-up situations and the outside shots they afford--instead of forcing toward the goal and more abuse--the Crimson scored the first three goals of the third period, two on carbon copy screamers by midfielder Steve Voelkel only 22 seconds apart, Harvard cut a 7-2 intermission deficit...
...probes, Venera 13 and 14 seem to have performed extremely well. Starting on their four-month, 185-million-mile journeys within a week of each other last fall, they approached Venus in late February, separated from their mother ships and drifted under parachute through the planet's dense carbon-dioxide atmosphere, blasting winds and corrosive clouds of sulfuric acid to touchdowns east of a mountainous region called Phoebe, just south of Venus' equator...
...right decision. Waugh, one of the great prose craftsmen of the 20th century, must have realized that his 14-year-old Charles was a faint carbon copy of his public school self. Ryder attends "Spierpoint" just after World War I; Waugh went to Lancing at the same time. Details and dialogue are loosely transplanted from the author's diaries. Like Waugh, young Ryder exhibits a monkish passion for drawing and illuminated texts. Unlike the grave, sentimental narrator of Brideshead, Charles the teen-ager can sound as curmudgeonly as his middle-aged maker: "I think the invention of movable type...