Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Carter has a long way to go to prove himself, his coming to power overshadowed all other developments in 1976, the year of the Bicentennial. The U.S. gave itself a glorious birthday party?climaxed forever in the mind's eye by the vision of the tall ships ghosting up New York Harbor. There was also a valid occasion for some old-fashioned Yankee Doodle pride. For the first time in the 75-year history of the honors, all of the Nobel Prizes went to Americans?six men won or shared the science awards, and Saul Bellow capped a distinguished...
After earning his bachelor's and law degrees at the University of Nebraska, young Ted headed for Washington. Taking a job on Capitol Hill, he was so promising that he soon caught John Kennedy's eye and became his administrative assistant. The two hit it off, sharing similar ideas and temperaments. As Sorensen put it, "Both of us have a certain reserve, a certain difficulty giving ourselves to people." But Sorensen had no trouble devoting himself wholeheartedly to Kennedy's service...
...followed swiftly. By early in the 17th century, Galileo had used his telescope to discover spots on the sun−demonstrating that the solar complexion was somewhat less than perfect−and to prove that the sky was filled with stars that could not be seen with the naked eye...
...core and starts to burn the hydrogen in its outer layers. This process causes the star gradually to turn red and swell to 100 times its previous size, pouring out prodigious amounts of energy. Betelgeuse, in the constellation Orion, is such a "red giant," visible to the naked eye. When the sun undergoes a similar metamorphosis, it will envelop Mercury and Venus and vaporize the earth. By that time, 5 billion years from now, man's descendants may have found a new home in an outer planet or beyond...
...patient's sleep habits−for example, by questioning his bed partner. They also video-tape his slumber behavior in special sleeping rooms, where patients spend the night hooked up to a polygraph, a lie-detector-like machine that monitors sleep-related physiological functions (breathing, muscle twitching, rapid eye movement...