Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predators or squashed and dusted with poison by humans. But most survive, and the female is able to lay upwards of 500 eggs in slits that she makes in twigs. The lives of the adults are soon over, and they die. But in eight weeks the cicada nymphs hatch and burrow down into the ground to reach the tree roots, on which they will feed and grow slowly for the next 13 years. The periodic cicadas do not kill trees in their feeding, and at no point in their lives do they hurt garden vegetables or flowering plants, although their...
...technology may have been flawless, but the people were not. Scientists at a U.S. Air Force ground station on a Maui mountaintop fired a laser beam 220 miles through space at a minute target, an 8-in. mirror attached to a hatch window on the left side of the space shuttle Discovery, which was speeding above the Hawaiian island at 17,500 m.p.h. The intention was to bounce the low-powered ribbon of light off the mirror and send it flashing back to Maui. But as the blue-green laser beam successfully "painted" the spacecraft over the test site...
...summits, adamantly refused to set an early--or any--date for trade negotiations. He voiced varied objections: that the talks had to be carefully prepared; that they ought to be linked to a monetary-reform conference, about which the U.S. is dubious; most of all, that trade talks might hatch a deal on agricultural products that would hurt French farmers...
...public schools, the Equal Rights Amendment, the death penalty and school desegregation. Among the seven relating to abortion was one asking whether "a 'viable' fetus is a human being." The eight-page letter was sent by three conservative Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee--Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, Orrin Hatch of Utah and John East of North Carolina--to Joseph Rodriguez, a Democrat nominated by Reagan for a New Jersey federal judgeship...
...Hatch described the letter as nothing out of the ordinary, but the outcry from others was sharp. Said Senator Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat: "With some U.S. Senators, being a conservative is not enough. You must come up to their standard of being an extreme right-wing ideologue." Added Senator Joseph Biden Jr., a Delaware Democrat: "The notion of an ideological litmus test is repugnant." Even Judiciary Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond, a conservative Republican, found the letter unacceptable. He announced that henceforth all members must confine their questioning of nominees to confirmation hearings...