Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Polanyi took a different approach. He studied chemical reactions by analyzing the faint infrared light emitted when molecules link up to form new substances, a phenomenon known as chemiluminescence. Says Polanyi: "You can see the dance of the molecules as they break up and are created." One application: the radiation can be amplified to produce a powerful new class of lasers...
...duties. "My biggest job," he says, "is to create the atmosphere where creative people can do well. There are a lot of people running hard in this institution, and there has been a remarkable absence of smugness and self-satisfaction." Only a cynic would find in that statement a faint touch of self-satisfaction...
...observers believe the heralded Iranian attack on Basra could turn out to be a false alarm. "Every year we hear the same thing -- now | comes the final offensive," says Thomas McNaugher, a Persian Gulf watcher at the Brookings Institution, "and every year it peters out." Nonetheless, the prospect, however faint, that Iran could begin to extend its control deeper into Iraq and then through the gulf is too serious to be ignored. Windows in Kuwait already rattle from Iranian artillery bombardments just 15 miles away. Saudi Arabia and other neighboring states are growing increasingly nervous. "Complacency can be fatal," says...
...accusatory inflections, rough humor, feral grace and odd parlor tricks, from a no-hands bobbing of his hat on his head to incessant, playful swiping of a bystander's gold watch. He brings vitality to such shopworn comedy as passing out, being revived and protesting, "Here! I didn't faint for water." In a leaning-on-a-lamppost number, Lindsay achieves a slouchy elegance that visually echoes Gene Kelly's title solo in Singin' in the Rain. Plunkett is melodious as "my girl," but Lindsay's performance practically shouts, "Look at me!" and thoroughly rewards the attention...
...species had once coexisted. The arguments were precariously based on the widely held belief that bipedal dinosaurs stepped toe first when walking, a conclusion bolstered by the fact that their tracks usually include only the front part of the foot and the three toes, with the heel generally faint or missing. At Paluxy, some prints are oblong and toeless. True, they are 15 to 20 in. long, but, argue creationists, they could conceivably have been made by biblical giants...