Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will give astrophysicists a chance to test their theories. The intensity of light from the disc has been diminishing by about 1% per month, which suggests that material in the disc is being drawn rapidly into the star. Eventually, the disc will disappear and all that will be left will be the newborn star, and any planets it may have spawned. Such a process can sometimes take millions of years. But scientists will not have to wait that long to see how MWC 349's birth turns out. At the rate at which the disc is disappearing, it will...
...notion that public relations is a legitimate CIA function worries many oldtimers. Though the agency has always had a p.r. official of some sort, it did not formally admit so, and he was rarely helpful to the press. But as the CIA was drawn into public controversies, the office became more professional and more open. Now p.r. is expanding to an 18-member staff under Herbert E. Hetu, a retired Navy captain...
...bookkeeping was vague, his meanness unpleasant-it was Vollard who kept Gauguin on short rations in Tahiti-and his narcissism immense. "The most beautiful woman who ever lived," said Picasso, "never had her portrait painted, drawn or engraved more often than Vollard-by Cézanne, Renoir, Roussel, Bonnard, Forain, almost everybody in fact. He had the vanity of a woman, that man." But he also had an exquisitely tuned eye and a great deal of patience; the combination enabled Vollard, as publisher, to master the innumerable problems involved in producing major collaborations between artist and text...
When it came down to the wire this January, however, most official College groups were awed by the multimillion dollar price tag Dean Rosovsky hung on the uniform four-year housing plan, and few were drawn to the North House proposal to further integrate upperclass...
...significance. Evans's personal story is one with which many students--and even more of the recent alumni--can easily identify. Mac Evans, the narrator of the novel, describes in detail his disaffection with Harvard, its students, and especially its administration; he tells of being slowly but surely drawn first into sympathy with, and then active involvement in radical politics during the late '60s. He describes a famous scene outside Quincy House, when former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was surrounded by angry students and forced to speak briefly from the hood of a car before being led to safety...