Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while Hazan ticks off on two big wall maps the different gastronomical and geographical regions of Italy ("We have 6,000 basic recipes"), expounds the secrets of olive oil, flour and cow cheese, goat cheese and sheep cheese. As if photographing each step on their minds, the students crane forward to retain the maestra's skill in boning chicken breasts ("Save the skins!"), her hammering of scallopini, her preparation from scratch of four-egg pasta in just about every form from agnolotti to trofie...
...limit, rather than an averaging approach, on cruise missiles aboard bombers. Since the Russians were yielding to the U.S. on the averaging approach, Gromyko continued, their earlier concession on the MIRV freeze was no longer operative. Sighed a haggard American official, paraphrasing Lenin, "One step forward, one step backward...
Actually, there was at least a step and a half forward at that meeting. While the Soviets now claimed the option of MlRVing their existing types of ICBMs with up to ten re-entry vehicles?an unacceptable proliferation from the American standpoint?they did finally concede that the U.S. had the right to put ten warheads on the MX. Since the U.S. was barred by SALT I from building anything as big and powerful as the SS-18 heavy rocket, it was politically important to the Carter Administration that SALT II allow the U.S. at least to match...
Thomas still writes his monthly column, one job among many in his crowded professional life. He is a familiar figure in the halls at Sloan-Kettering, walking quickly, the tall figure canted slightly forward at the waist, his lab coat billowing out behind him, Groucho-style. He is on the run elsewhere as well, making frequent trips to Washington for committee work and to testify at congressional hearings, and to Cambridge, where he serves on the Harvard Board of Overseers. In his laboratory he continues experimenting, currently studying two microbes that lack cell walls and observing how they interact with...
...explicated the crime. "When you speak of train robbery, I want to emphasize that this involved no loss of train, merely its contents. We haven't lost one since the blizzard of 1946, when we misplaced a small one." Well, then, who could have perpetrated the crime? Clemenson leans forward ominously, wrinkles his brow, and emits his conclusive response. "We believe this to be the work of thieves." Oh, so thieves are responsible? "Oh, good heavens, no! I believe the thieves are irresponsible...