Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turns out to be more interested in Claude's wife. Finally every body goes off on a sort of free-for-all Mediterranean cruise. In the worst tradition of French farce, Claude's wife fakes inconstancy with another man to arouse her husband's dormant jealousies and revive his sense of the bourgeois proprieties...
...Crick and Orgel estimate, man within a few decades will have nuclear rocket engines that would enable him to conduct a little panspermia of his own. Using such rockets, it would be possible to reach planets orbiting around any of thousands of stars with spacecraft carrying microorganisms, such as dormant algae and bacterial spores. Suitably protected and maintained at temperatures close to absolute zero, the organisms could be kept alive for a million years or more...
...Harvard Daily Journal almost succeeded in taking over The Crimson's place in the University by taking advantage of the paper's complacency. But the appearance of the new paper brought out the dormant aggressiveness of Crimson editors, and a full-fledged war with The Journal ensued...
...proposal to run a Radcliffe bus service lay dormant until 1970 when Harvard and Radcliffe began discussing the possibility of a coresidential exchange. Several men said they would not live in the Quad unless a bus ran to the yard, Whitlock said
...irony of World War II was that it brought many Russians a small degree of freedom. Stalin entreated his "brothers and sisters" to unite in defending the motherland. Pravda even printed one of Akhmatova's heroic war poems. Her dormant fame was reawakened. In 1944 she received a standing ovation after reading her poetry from a Moscow stage. But two years later, with the war won, Stalin was asking. "Who organized this standing ovation?" Akhmatova was proscribed again and her son was rearrested...