Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet-aided coup, the Czechoslovak Communists seized total power. Czechoslovakia's Western-oriented Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, the son of the country's founder, was killed in a fall from a window in the Foreign Ministry. Many Czechoslovaks believed that it was murder, and saw in his death the demise of their own freedom...
When tragedy broke up his happy family life, first with the death of two young sons, then his wife, Grandville's art took a grotesque turn. He started sketching his dreams and nightmares, as Baudelaire decribed it, "with all the precision of a stenographer writing down an orator's speech." In 1847, his third son died. Brokenhearted, Grandville died a short time later...
...gastric hemorrhage; in Boulder, Colo. Although he worked in the arcane worlds of entropy and anti-numbers, Gamow had a rare gift for explaining science to the layman. While teaching at George Washington University, he put his clarity and common sense into nine books, including The Birth and Death of the Sun (1940) and The Creation of the Universe...
...embodying the two principal characteristics of our time: swiftness and violence." In another report, he berated San Franciscans for back ing a bond issue to build a new sports stadium instead of channeling the money into public housing and job opportunities. On the day of Robert Kennedy's death, he refused to report the baseball scores on his nightly New York newscast. He explained: "When people view outlet, escape and entertainment as the be-all and end-all of human ex istence, then I have to wonder how sick this society really...
Light from a single, well-defined source holds such a strong attraction for night-flying moths that a flickering candle flame can lure them to a fiery death. But when light comes from all angles, as in a brightly lit room or outdoors during daylight, some moths cease all activity, as if they had been "turned off." Scientists have long wondered: What throws the switch...