Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plain Dealer is practically unique among its seventeenth century counterparts. Whereas the plays of Etherege, Congreve and Farquhar are characterized by a lack of genuine emotion, a plot of less weight than their racy, epigrammatic wit, and an absence of realism, William Wycherley reversed these trends, hastening the decay of the comedy of manners. Pure intellect was replaced by feeling, pure wit by emotion. The Plain Dealer is an intriguing mixture of realism and artificiality, of emotion and intellect, lacking meanwhile the polished style and all-pervasive wit of the great masters...
...difficult to explain because the planet's gravity is too weak to prevent a gaseous envelope from escaping into space. But, says Project Scientist James A. Dunne, some gases could be continually trapped from the stream of solar particles or released from within the planet by the slow decay of radioactive elements...
...that was then cratered by the impact of the remaining debris. When the rain of rocks eventually ended some 3.9 billion years ago, the moon's surface was covered by great craters and basins. Other changes were still to come. Deep within the moon, heat from the slow decay of radioactive elements like uranium and thorium gradually built up, melting the once solid interior rock. Finally, between 3 billion and 4 billion years ago, lava broke through the hard outer crust in a great spasm of volcanic activity, possibly forming some new craters and flooding the great low-lying...
...supercharged, fuel-injected future, the first bar of justice for alleged lawbreakers is quaintly called, in a reminiscence of 14th century England, Recorder's Court. Little beyond its name is Chaucerian. Until recently it was a paradigm of judicial systems crumbling under the burden of civic decay. Justin Ravitz, now a judge of Recorder's Court, once described it as "the cesspool of the legal world...
...Washington, D.C., her voice was muted. Nearing any high note, she would look down. She bridled at suggestions that she had been tamed. "Mellowed," she snapped, "what is that? To mellow is to decay...