Word: jells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials in Newport Beach, Calif. "It's clear that if we're going to build little robots that do things, then they've got to have muscles," says Paul Calvert, a materials scientist at the University of Arizona. He uses polymer gels to construct "Jell-O jacks," which resemble the wobbly dessert but are capable of raising and lowering small objects. Agrees Qiming Zhang, an electrical engineer at Pennsylvania State University: "The only bottleneck is that we haven't found the perfect muscle materials...
When Clinton spoke briefly in the Rose Garden after the vote, he looked, finally, grief stricken and empty, like a mourner left alone with the empty Jell-O molds and casserole dishes after the funeral. The adrenaline was gone, and the friends dispersed. His wife, welded to his side through most of the bitter fight against Starr, was pointedly absent in its Rose Garden aftermath. Her refusal to shut the door on a run for the Senate in New York could almost be taken as an announcement that she is open to a de facto separation, a psychological divorce. Bruce...
...intimacy; or, in the indelible words of one of his girlfriends, Sheila Ryan, "he preferred pumping to actual sex." If the affair progressed, Ryan observed, "all of a sudden you graduated into Mother. You were expected to take care of him... He needed water, he needed pills, he needed Jell-O, he needed to be read to." But however long they lasted, these women never passed caretaker status. He could give his whole heart only to his real mother Gladys, whose death closed the first volume, as her son went off for his hitch in the Army...
...jell together we can compete with any team," said Zazles...
...University of New Hampshire suspended a professor of technical writing, J. Donald Silva, in 1993 for classroom remarks he had made the previous year. Besides other suggestive comments, Silva had compared the focus required for writing to that demanded by sex. He had also said, "Belly dancing is like Jell-O on a plate with a vibrator under the plate." Weird, yes. But harassment? The university thought so and directed Silva to take counseling at his own expense. Instead he filed suit. Backed by the Center for Individual Rights, a conservative Washington-based advocacy group, Silva won. A federal judge...