Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Culture: Fast and Loose...
...Tournaments have sprouted so fast that the most ardent fans get fouled up trying to keep track of who is playing whom, and where, and when. Last winter alone, World Championship Tennis had two and even three tournaments going at once. No. 1 Player Connors played on yet another tour while the women trekked along on their own circuit. And there has been no relief. Since May, World Team Tennis has horned in to compete against an already crowded schedule of traditional tournaments...
Still, a single-cause magazine can come down as fast as it goes up. Concerned but bullish, Editor Dwyer plans to broaden High Times' appeal to include the clothes, food and homelife of the pot generation, and investigative stories on the drug agencies. Says Dwyer: "Our audience is optimistic and pleasure-oriented. We're putting it all together for this readership...
...smell offshore like the smell of a garden." The garden-like fragrance of herbs still hangs on the New England air, and with it the sweet smell of commercial success. Indeed, Americans' fascination with herbs-plants valued for specific medicinal, culinary or aromatic uses-has grown so fast in recent years that the demand for herb plants and seeds has wafted to every corner of the country. Dried and fresh herbs, used for millenniums in teas, elixirs, salves and perfumes to spice food and please the nostril, are enjoying a luxuriant comeback in city stores and country herb farms...
...dilatancy to explain the Russian findings. Both reports pointed out an apparent paradox: when the cracks first open in the crustal rock, its strength increases. Temporarily, the rock resists fracturing and the quake is delayed. At the same time, seismic waves slow down because they do not travel as fast through the open spaces as they do through solid rock. Eventually ground water begins to seep into the new openings in the dilated rock. Then the seismic-wave velocity quickly returns to normal. The water also has another effect: it weakens the rock until it suddenly gives way, causing...