Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discovery is not simply a mileage record. The galaxy is being seen only a few billion years after the big-bang explosion, which suggests that at least some galaxies were being formed while the universe was still in its infancy. This could very well challenge the cold dark matter theory of galaxy formation, which holds that galaxies required billions of years to grow around very dense clumps of invisible particles. Yet 4C41.17, which appears to be mature, is probably no older than 1 billion to 2 billion years. Says Team Member Wil van Breugel of the University of California, Berkeley...
...least one young German corporal who was temporarily blinded by a retaliatory blast of British mustard gas never forgot the experience. "My eyes," wrote Adolf Hitler, "had turned into glowing coals; it had grown dark around me." Hitler's memory, coupled with larger fears of retaliation, may help explain why the Nazis never unleashed their newly developed nerve gases on the battlefield in World War II, though they were applied in the gas chambers of the concentration camps...
...showed a desire to offend Hispanics. But he wasn't and he didn't He was making an observation, obviously an awkward one, when he said that those are my grandchildren, who happen to stand out a bit in my predominantly white family because they have dark skin, darker than mine if you must know...
...that the characters of each of these six presidential candidates and of Reagan are the result of a single event or individual that had a profound impact on the candidate's development. The devastating injuries which Bob Dole received during his service in World War II have produced his "dark side," his insistence on self-reliance, and his often bitter sense of humor. Jesse Jackson's character and drive were nourished in the subculture of the segregated black South, and his insatiable quest for legitimacy and respect are the product of having been born out of wedlock and constantly being...
Every stable society transmits values from one generation to the next. That is the work of civilization. In the Freudian scheme, it means the construction of a strong ego and superego above the dark basement of the id. Today in American culture, the barbarous id is both powerful and profitable (in the drug underworld and the entertainment industry, for example). The transmission of values is more difficult. Today's parents are often raising children in a world far removed from their own memories of childhood...