Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Beanpot fever continues to spread over the campus faster than an infectious disease, a senior admissions officer plows through stacks of applications from eager high school seniors. But when H. Bradley Richardson '53 can no longer plow his way out from under the essays, his thoughts invariably drift back 25 years to a packed Boston Arena...
...theory is that people treat cold as a shared stress experience. If you eliminate this common bond caused by external conditions, the natural tendency would be for people to drift apart," Spring said...
...more conspicuously out of place in modern Los Angeles. Then there is the glaring contrast between his tough, rational practicality of mind and the laid-back characters he keeps en countering. How, one wonders, will this cultural laggard cope with them? And even if he catches their drift, what if they get tough with him? He suggests a physical fragility that may not permit him to put enough muscle behind his hard-working mouth. There's good suspense here, the kind that derives from really caring for a singular individual...
Global cooling might be explained by a link between ice ages and changes both in the earth's attitude and in its orbit around the sun. That concept was championed by Germany's Alfred Wegener (best known for his ideas about continental drift) and later refined by Yugoslav Mathematician Milutin Milankovitch, for whom the theory is now named. Last year three scientists -James Hays of Columbia, John Imbrie of Brown University and Nicholas Shackleton of Cambridge University in England-published the strongest evidence yet that Milankovitch was right. Analyzing cores of sediments taken from beneath the floor...
...nearly two weeks more in San Francisco as he waits to wreck the vessel. But Hayden is a rueful realist, and the book's conclusion allows no romantic vengeance. The great, evil ship still floats, Harwar is stony drunk, and he and his dreams of social justice drift off on the tidal rip. John Skow