Word: cooler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...antique car, a "Union Depot train caller" ("Anaheim, Azusa and Cuc . . . amonga!"), a parrot, a Mexican ("What's your name?" "Sy." "Sy?" "Si"), and the choleric Professor LeBlanc, Jack's violin teacher: "Meester Be-nee, could I have some water, please?" "Water? Yes. There's some in the cooler down the hall." "That ees not enough. I would like to drown myself...
...Cubs took flying dives on their own stomachs, including the pitcher Les Lancaster, who happens to be on the disabled list after an appendectomy. It's actually a promising young team, and if Chicago does play better over the next couple of summers, people will say it was the cooler August nights, and maybe they will be right...
...rhythmically irresistible salsa songs that combine the heady call-and- response of African music with the electronic surge of rock 'n' roll and the glitzy brass of a Big Band. The dancers move to the beat like a snake to the charmer's call: the hotter the tune, the cooler the step as the men expertly guide the women through the twists and curves of the mambo, the cha- cha-cha, the merengue and the rumba...
...faulty lens, you're going to have a wrong image." By 1984 the Harvard group had assembled the first detailed map of the mantle ever published. Their data consisted of the patterns of earthquake-generated pressure waves that passed through the solid earth, moving faster through cooler regions of the mantle and more slowly through warmer areas...
...which waves would travel at different speeds along different axes, but molten iron is hardly crystalline. Instead, Don Anderson and his colleagues at Caltech's seismological lab postulated the existence of iron rain. Their theory: the polar regions of the core are slightly flattened and tend to be cooler than the equatorial regions. The heat exchange between the two areas may then result in a kind of geological weather system in which iron particles precipitate out of solution and rain down toward the core in a continuous cycle that is comparable to evaporation and condensation...