Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Street or the latest Government goof are laced with vinegar and lightened with pixie dust. "I follow the Mencken rule of never saying anything good about a sitting President," he laughs. His standard advice to worriers: "It's just your money, not your life." Rukeyser is addicted to puns and one-liners (sample: "One more week like this and we'll have to call this program Wall Street Wake...
...black hole? The name is highly appropriate. Nothing?not even light?can escape from black holes, making them invisible. Even more astounding, these bizarre non-objects are in effect celestial vacuum cleaners that voraciously devour everything they meet. They are bottomless pits into which atomic particles, dust and giant suns all disappear without a trace. They are rips in the very fabric of space and time, places where long-cherished laws of nature simply do not apply. So unbelievable and paradoxical are these notions that they have led to what Wheeler calls "the greatest crisis ever faced by physics." Says...
...Then the English Department looked about, and saw vast ignorance among the people concerning the English Bible. So the English Department created the Bible requirement and gave the people English 13 so they might fulfill it and be saved. And the English Department formed Morton Bloomfield out of the dust of Widener, and of the dust of books was he fashioned. And the people looked upon him, and were bored, even unto death. But the English Department was firm in its resolve and would not spare the people. And they suffered mightily. And Morton sent a plague of horrible, unprepared...
...various arguments consumed the Faculty in formal debate for three months, and in behind-the-scenes politicking for more than a year. Polls showed that a majority of undergraduates opposed the Core, but student members of the Committee of Undergraduate Education--an advisory group--approved the plan. When the dust settled, Rosovsky had won the argument decisively--by staking his considerable prestige on the success of the plan, and by expertly compromising on nuts-and-bolts details with professors anxious to see their own specialites included in the required curriculum, the dean won a 182-65 victory...
...they have been known to flutter dangerously, not to say grow flustered, under stress. The Dodgers are such an enemy. Though they have thus far stumbled along, beset by injuries, they are still at or near the top, an established team of stars capable of leaving anybody in the dust...