Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plume of gas and ash. The eruption was the first in the continental U.S. since 1914, when Mount Lassen, part of the Cascades in Northern California, came to life. Said Robert Tilling of the U.S. Geological Survey: "It's fabulous! We can actually monitor the reawakening of a dormant volcano with modern instrumentation. We're going to get a much better handle on our whole model of how the earth behaves...
...start in just one of the body's billions of cells, triggered by a stray bit of radiation, a trace of toxic chemical, perhaps a virus or a random error in the transcription of the cell's genetic message. It can lie dormant for decades before striking, or it can suddenly attack. Once on the move, it divides to form other abnormal cells, outlaws that violate normal genetic restraints. The body's immune system, normally alert to the presence of alien cells, fails to respond properly; its usually formidable defense units refrain from moving in and destroying the intruders. Unlike...
...both healthy and abnormal cells by slowing cell division. Unlike most cancer drugs it does not kill malignant cells outright, but it somehow alters them so they stop proliferating. Another important difference: rather than killing cancer cells when they are rapidly dividing, IF works best when they are dormant and in the so-called resting stage. Interferon also seems to issue a call to arms to the general immune system. It marshals macrophages, scavenger cells that gobble up foreign material, and increases both the numbers and activity of another specialized group of lymphocytes, known as natural killer cells. All types...
...bats were dormant until the final stanza, when designated hitter Eddie Farrell worked out a walk, and pinchhitter Billy Blood slammed a triple to centerfield, plating the seventh and final...
...herpes simplex 1 virus lies dormant in nerve tissue until reactivated by any of a number of reasons--among them exposure to sun, stress, fever and colds...