Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minuteman is the latest major weapons system to grow from the big breakthrough in the development of solid-fueled missiles. Almost as soon as scientists found solutions to solid-fuel problems, the relatively inexpensive, highly mobile, easily handled solid-fuel missiles opened up whole new prospects of operation. And at the same time they doomed to swift obsolescence the cumbersome, complex, costly, "first-generation" liquid-fuel missiles, with their big, liquid-oxygen plants, their long fueling time before launching and their intricate plumbing...
Unto the 72nd Generation. Finally, Researcher Enders picked a virus strain that had gone through 24 crops in human kidney cells and 28 in cells from the amniotic sac ("bag of waters"). By then, it would grow in eggs. He grew six crops that way and 14 in chick-cell cultures. With this end product he inoculated fresh, measles-free monkeys. The weakened virus lived a while in their throats but never multiplied in their blood. The monkeys developed antibodies which, months later, still gave protection. One major problem remained: to show that the weakened virus, which might be used...
...concert as a whole provided many pleasures for the audience, as well as challenges to the Orchestra which were met with spirit and energy. The Orchestra should continue to grow musically as it already has technically; this is their major task at this point...
...thrusts with ease, sooner or later got her listeners into her own frame of reference. Her greatest vice at the moment, by her own confession: "Intensity." The cure she seeks: "Harmony. I want to find peace within myself and the world in which I live. I want to grow, not by design, but as the flower grows. Peace is art. Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes...
...table was terribly untidy. Breadcrumbs soaked in the damp red stains, olive-stones floated in glasses, cigarette-ends sizzled in salad-plates. And we did not lift a little finger, we did not put a glass or a fork right, but just let the mess grow worse before us. We even leaned on it, growing callous, and delicately picked out of the wreckage the bare essentials. the bitter wine that was needed to keep the evening going...