Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of terrorist bombings, Israeli planes attacked Palestinian camps in Lebanon for the first time since before the September session at Camp David. As Florida Democrat Richard Stone, head of the Senate Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, put it, the Israelis appeared to have "drawn the wagons into a circle...
...unique pair whirled through space, they offered an ideal test of Einstein's theory. According to general relativity, their movements should be accompanied by an emission of gravity waves. That faint radiation would be impossibly difficult to detect from earth. Still, if Einstein were right, the energy drawn from the orbiting bodies by those waves would cause a predictable effect: the two bodies, which spin around each other about once every eight hours at a velocity of 1.06 million k.p.h. (660,000 m.p.h.), would move ever closer, causing a shortening in their orbital period. The loss, to be sure, would...
What makes the present load bearable for the borrower is the lengthening of the repayment schedules for installment loans. Auto loans that used to run for three years can now be stretched to four or even five. Some credit-card repayments can be drawn out indefinitely for anyone who is willing to pay an annual finance charge...
...suspicious Chinese, diplomats in Kabul have found no evidence that all this was on Moscow's orders. In fact, Soviet representatives in Afghanistan confide that they have advised the feudal country's new rulers to move and talk with caution. Apparently the Russians are wary of being drawn into civil strife in a country on their border, should the Taraki regime run into trouble...
Sackeim's interpretation of the evidence is that the emotional left side of the face may have evolved to convey a clear message about feelings-the facial expression is more strongly drawn to compensate for the poor ability of the left brain to read faces. Sackeim's research has also convinced him that the brain's right hemisphere is more heavily involved in expressing emotions than the left. What does it all boil down to, in practical terms? When in doubt about anyone's feelings, just study the left side of the person's face...