Word: fleetingness
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The underground press itself has been a fleeting and sometimes unstable form of communication, as community, high school, black, G.I., hippie, and radical papers are born and die with amazing frequency. New printing methods- notably the "coldtype" use of the offset press- have encouraged the proliferation of what seems to...
The Pullman beds and wash basins, folding out of the walls like part of a Chinese puzzle, still fascinate the children on board. In the dining car, the tuxedoed steward still seats passengers at tables with vases of fresh Colorado carnations resting on the white linen. There are Rocky Mountain...
Tazieff contends that the Afar triangle is, geologically speaking, a section of the expanding floor of the Red Sea. That floor, he says, has been uplifted by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other activity linked with lava flows from the Red Sea rift-whose axis has somehow been displaced slightly westward...
As Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrived at the south portico of the White House last week, he may have had a fleeting fancy that he had come to a banana republic or a Balkan kingdom. On hand to greet him were a squad of White House guards...
Take any number of children from six to twelve years old. Give them some idle time. Add some empty space-a city block, a vacant lot, a backyard or a corner of a park-as remote as possible from grownups. What will the children do? Play games, of course. Not...