Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California, where sunlight is plentiful and rainfall consistent, one year's wine is not much different from the next. To help maintain uniformity further, many California vintners blend wines from different years to mask annual variations in quality. The trained tongue, however, can detect some yearly differences. This year's harvest, some of which will be on the shelves by next spring, will definitely be distinguished; the spring frost reduced the number of grapes on each vine, and surviving grapes had less competition for minerals from the soil...
...These guys spend so much time trying to achieve the great stone face that it's easy to detect an errant expression," said Dolmatch, who is in this section of the research group...
...some stuck in place, attracted by the local static charges that Greenwood had created by his walk. In fact, they formed clusters that looked like footprints wherever his heels and soles had come in contact with the carpet. Greenwood found that he could use the beads to detect his shoeprints up to a day after he had walked across...
Considerably easier to detect was the mob of high school kids who descended on a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Spring Valley, N.Y. They arrived on chicken night (unlimited amount for $1.69) and devoured 360 pieces of chicken (about 90 lbs.), along with salad and rolls, before vanishing into the night. Another easy-to-spot glutton was the "gigantic man" who waddled into a Sir George's Smorgasbord House branch in the San Fernando Valley. He opened with 2 lbs. of salad, then reduced a chicken to rubble, inhaled two plates of roast beef, and washed...
...Liberation has been the refusal of some feminists to submit to examination by male gynecologists. Men doctors, some women believe, simply do not understand female attitudes toward gynecological problems. Small groups of women began meeting last year in "selfhelp" cells on the West Coast; they learned to detect, diagnose and sometimes even treat some ailments. Since then, do-it-yourself gynecology has spread to cities across the country...