Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole week ahead of them and they need something to look forward to . . .") and go on in a predictable yet subtly understated manner to remodel Max's "too personal, too negative" reasons into "happy, acceptable reasons." The happy acceptable reasons are serving as a warning to moral decay and the unpatriotic, socialist "beasts among us, who say equality but mean debasement...
...loss. With a brisk, nononsense, let's-get-on-with-it approach, he sounds all the optimistic notes in The Three Sisters. The emphasis is on Chekhov's hopes that work and intelligence and energy will change and save the pre-Revolutionary Russia of sloth, injustice and decay. There is something ironic about...
Using radioactive dating methods based on the decay of the isotope carbon 14, scientists have estimated the seeds to be as much as 11,700 years old; the same tests on ancient grain samples found in the Middle East or Latin America show that none are more than 9,500 years old. Thus, says the director of the University of Hawaii expedition. Anthropologist Wilhelm G. Solheim II. Thailand's ancient inhabitants may well have been the world's first farmers...
...lives in Manhattan, a city in which outdoor pay telephones are used as urinals. He judges that Manhattan has come to exceed Naples or Salonika in the fluorescence of its decay. But the fact neither dismays nor gratifies him. It is his belief, in fact, that people have grown too fond of "the tragic accents of their condition." They use the upset of former respectabilities to justify silliness, shallowness, distemper, lust. He has seen worse than fouled phone booths...
...usable substances for the producers. As the key producers, green plants alone have the power to harness the sun's energy and combine it with elements from air, water and rocks into living tissue?the vegetation that sustains animals, which in turn add their wastes and corpses to natural decay. It is nature's efficient reuse of the decay that builds productive topsoil. Yet such is the delicacy of the process that it takes 500 years to create one inch of good topsoil...