Word: fire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shooting in gloomy alleys and sunless rooming houses, he and his colleagues became pioneers of flash-lit photography -- a delicate undertaking in those days when the newly invented magnesium flash powder had to be poured into an open pan and then ignited with a flaming bang. "Twice I set fire to the house with my apparatus," Riis later recorded calmly, "and once to myself...
...method of measuring the minute movements that occur inside atoms. Ramsey's so-called separated oscillatory fields technique did not just become a valuable scientific tool; it also provided the basis for modern-day atomic clocks. Like the ticking of a pendulum in a grandfather clock, the rapid-fire (9,192,631.770 times a second) oscillations of cesium-atom nuclei, spinning like tops inside a magnetic field, can be used to pace off time...
This year's proposals before the Council vyed for a slice of the city's approximately $3 million budget, Healy said. He said the lighting plan competed with school and hospital renovation projects, as well as fire and police force funding...
Masters' children also say undergraduates often make great playmates. "Once I was playing Indians with a student, and I got so into it I built a play fire at his feet and then tied him to a tree and left him there," 20-year-old Christina T. Kiely '91 says. The victim missed all of his afternoon classes, and father Robert J. Kiely scolded her, telling her never to tie anyone up again, she says...
...July, Kenya's President, Daniel arap Moi, set ablaze a twelve-ton mountain of illicit ivory -- 3,000 tusks worth $3 million. To those familiar with the plundering of Kenya's herds and the corruption in its wildlife department, the fire was a kind of exorcism. "If we go wrong here, hope will be lost in many parts of this continent," says Richard Leakey, who became head of the department in April. "If we go right here, there is a chance for things to happen elsewhere much more rapidly than any of us would have dared to believe...