Word: cribbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need, but curiosity and adventure are profoundly encoded in the human brain. Peace is also a slow, perilous process of equilibrium, but deep space is a siren summoning the race to an unimaginable catalogue of unknowns. To reach the moon is only to touch the rattle dangling over the crib. The reach has lost its magic-or perhaps not yet really found it-because like infants, men scarcely can conceive of what lies beyond in space and time. Such perspectives, even in man's minuscule neighborhood of the galaxy, tend to reduce the affairs of earth's superpowers...
Born. To Strom Thurmond, 68, South Carolina's Republican Senator, and Nancy Moore Thurmond, 24, former Miss South Carolina (1966): their first child, a girl; in Greenwood, S.C. Name: Nancy Moore. Watching her perform noisily in her crib, Thurmond quipped: "I believe she's staging a filibuster...
...demands that his family treat him as a genius; he methodically probes the emotions of his 13-year-old daughter ( O Daddy, she repeatedly cries in exasperation, for, in truth, she is much more mature than he); he regards life as a treatment from which he hopes to crib his next movie...
...want the four cited toys off the shelves by Christmas, as well as five additional toys that FDA refuses to take action on. Included are two poorly insulated stoves that reach temperatures of up to 600 degrees, a metal-casting set that can ignite paper or dangling sleeves, a crib mobile that can shatter in a baby's face, and a mechanical drawing toy with an easily breakable glass cover. Though makers of all five toys say that they have corrected the faults, Kaplan contends that stores are still selling the unimproved versions. "Toy models often have a short...
...From the Crib...