Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March 13, Mr. King promoted a heavyweight title fight between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield that resulted in a draw. While it appeared to the untrained eye that Lewis beat the living daylights out of Holyfield, landing 348 punches to Holyfield's 130, the expert judges thought it was superclose. A grand jury is investigating the matter. I suggest a censure resolution. But only because I think that makes me sound smart...
Goddard meant his moon musings to be innocent enough, but when the Times saw them, it pounced. As anyone knew, the paper explained with an editorial eye roll, space travel was impossible, since without atmosphere to push against, a rocket could not move so much as an inch. Professor Goddard, it was clear, lacked "the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools...
...dancer, fled the Nazis in 1939 and settled at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he worked with Einstein. In his later years Godel grew paranoid about the spread of germs, and he became notorious for compulsively cleaning his eating utensils and wearing ski masks with eye holes wherever he went. He died at age 72 in a Princeton hospital, essentially because he refused to eat. Much as formal systems, thanks to their very power, are doomed to incompleteness, so living beings, thanks to their complexity, are doomed to perish, each in its own unique manner...
...complete Salk's education in speed under pressure. After that, it was a snap for him to set up his own peacetime lab at the University of Pittsburgh and equip it to the gills for the Great Crusade--the one that every immunologist in the world then had his eye on--against the Great White Whale itself, poliomyelitis...
Fortunately, Salk had somehow found time to do basic research on the virus and write a few theoretical papers, and it was these that caught the eye of Basil O'Connor, the zealous head of the Infantile Paralysis Foundation, who decided to play a hunch and shove some dimes in Salk's direction with instructions to get going...