Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kuumba Singers do need polish. Occasionally I could detect a note held too long or missed altogether. But the miracle is that the choir works so well given its amateur character and the demands of academia. More kuumba is certainly in order...
...first time since Reconstruction the district had sent a Republican to Congress. White conservative Democrats don't have to be exceptionally acute to detect a message there...
...also far more elaborate than that set up by the Geneva agreements. For the first 60 days of the ceasefire, a 3,000-man military commission, composed of representatives from all four signatories to the treaty, will be deployed across the country, ready to deter and detect violations and to act as a forum for settling differences. The ICC will report any infractions it discovers to the commission, and vice versa. After 60 days, the U.S. and North Viet Nam will withdraw from the four-party commission, leaving a permanent military commission made up equally of South Vietnamese and Provisional...
...Kamp began his search in 1937. He used Sprout's 24-in. refracting telescope to photograph at regular intervals the several hundred stars in the sun's immediate neighborhood in hopes of detecting any odd movements in their paths. In addition to his interest in Barnard's Star, he was particularly intrigued by Epsilon Eridani. Though most nearby stars are small, relatively faint "red dwarfs," Epsilon Eridani is a bright yellow-orange star somewhat like the sun with about seven-tenths of its mass and 30% of its luminosity. Thus, if there were any planets in orbit...
...Cost of Living Council. One imagines the jolly press conferences a year hence in which Dunlop will tell the nation that the price of hamburger has risen only 40 per cent instead of the expected 80. When somebody is wielding enormous power in Washington, it is much easier to detect it than at Harvard, because the folks there are generally either blowing people up or at least robbing them blind...