Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calculated the orbit of a periodic comet that bears his name (it reappears every 3.3 years), insisted that the orbit of "his" comet could not be explained solely by gravity. He proposed that "ether," an invisible theoretical substance that at the time was believed to pervade space, exerted drag on the nucleus, slowing it down. After observing flares streaming from Comet Halley's surface in 1836, another German astronomer, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, conceived a more plausible concept, the fountain theory. Bessel proposed that a comet was a loose clump of particles. He suggested the flares were fountains of these motes...
...would have taken luck--and maybe an appearance by iceman Scott Fusco in drag--to outdo the powerful Wildcats...
...life gets reflected in the calls we get," says Cohen. Thirty student counselors deal with such wide-ranging subjects as contraceptives and eating problems, rape and suicide, sexual harassment, cross-cultural problems, and death. "We can be very serious or very casual," says Cohen. "We're not going to drag a problem out of a person, but we're there if somebody [has a serious problem]. They can walk in and start crying if they want to, and we won't be shocked...
...avenue, the main drag in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Riverside, could become either Patrick Ewing Way, after the Cambridge-born hoops star at Georgetown University, or Martin Luther King Blyd...
...monocle. He then parries, lunges and ripostes on topics ranging from love ("When you are in love, you accept the beloved's faults as virtues.") and children ("The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.") to whether or not Nancy Reagan is in fact a man in drag ("No, she would be much more feminine if she were...