Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time, other University groups that had been dormant since 1970 emerged to voice their dismay over U.S. policy. More than 300 library staff members signed a petition condemning Nixon's latest move; Librarians for Peace, an antiwar group begun in 1970, circulated the petition...
...bond that unites Jews is not all that mystical and metaphysical [April 10]. It stems from two basic lessons learned over the past 2,000 years: 1) persecution of the Jews has been constant, and while it has been dormant at times, it breaks out in the most unlikely places and at the most unlikely times, and 2) the world has become inured to it and reacts at best with indifference and at worst with approval...
...Harvard surgeon announced Monday that his research team had isolated a protein without which cancerous tumors revert to a dormant, benign state...
...same seminar three years ago. Folkman announced that he had discovered that tumors could be held dormant, presumably by a chemical factor...
...Palestinian guerrillas, who had been dormant since King Hussein expelled them from Jordan eight months ago, exploded into new activity last week with a series of attacks that reverberated throughout the Middle East. One group skyjacked a West German jet and successfully ransomed it for $5,000,000 (see following story). Then fedayeen struck in Gaza and on the Lebanese border, killing five Israelis, two of them civilians. Israeli armored forces and aircraft retaliated in the most intense fighting since the Middle East cease fire began 19 months...