Word: glue
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disease, which can occur when the tissues of a transplant recipient are attacked by implanted adult cells. Also, fetal nerve cells, unlike adult cells, can regenerate and thus have the potential to repair a damaged brain or spinal cord. "These properties," says Green, "make fetal cells a very exciting glue to tie together injured or diseased areas of the body...
There NATO doctrine rested for the following decade. Despite the frequent controversies regarding deployment, nuclear weapons provide the glue that has held the Western Alliance together...
...years that followed, a strange situation developed around this inanimate object. Whenever the authorities did not like something, it was our car that suffered. Two tires would be punctured or a window smashed or smeared with a durable glue. If something like that happened to our car, we knew that we had done something bad by their standards: perhaps we had managed to talk to someone on the street or at the market, or had gone to the wrong place...
...from the Great Patriotic War who teaches neighborhood children the virtues of informing on parents, saving scrap metal, and mixing a fine Molotov cocktail. The final episode of this miniseries is particularly moving, as the children wave goodbye to Ed as he is dragged off to the People's Glue Factory...
...form self- perpetuating linguistic ghettos. "English, which has been our common bond, our unifying force, is being eroded," said Stanley Diamond, chairman of the California English Campaign. Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado, an outspoken leader on the issue, echoed the idea of English as this country's social glue before a congressional committee. "We should be color-blind but not linguistically deaf," he said. "We should be a rainbow but not a cacophony. We should welcome different people but not adopt different languages...