Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether its builders knew it or not, the construction of Anchorage was always a risk. Set as it is in southern Alaska, it is deep in an earthquake zone. To make matters worse, most of the city was built on a glacial-outwash plain, which rides on thick beds of slippery clay. When earthquake waves raced through Anchorage on Good Friday, they shattered many a brittle, modern concrete building, but their worst effect was to crack the underlying clay and start the whole place sliding toward...
...Rarely. So he buys a soft felt, because that is all there is to buy. And whatever happened to the all-white suit, a favorite of President Harding? Where is the Chesterfield, the spat, and the well-starched evening shirt? The Unbuttoned Look. But such changes are relatively glacial, and the menswear industry wistfully eyes the process of seasonal obsolescence in women's fashions. The makers of men's clothes have had their successes, for instance, in the spectator sporting look...
...Class. Couve de Murville is in the tradition of his famous predecessors. He shares with Richelieu a mastery of detail and an acute sense of the true political situation, and possesses much of the glacial calm and stiff self-control of Talleyrand. So far, he has been the nearly flawless tactician of De Gaulle's grand strategy with its goals of 1) primacy in Europe, 2) increasing independence from the U.S., and 3) emergence as leader of the world's third force...
Konrad Adenauer's old face, long locked in the glacial freeze of history, suddenly melted. "You see," he said, almost chortling, to the President of the U.S., "there are some people who want...
...Ericson favors a theory that holds that during the ice age the sun went through periods in which it generated less heat. It recovered during the warm interglacial periods and melted most of the glacial ice. But there is no guarantee against another relapse. Modern man may be enjoying an interglacial period that may end at any time. When the chill returns, it will probably send many modern species to join the discoasters...