Word: keys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thanksgiving always fade by Christmas. You forget that horrible feeling that comes when your stomach reels under loads of ungodly amounts of food. Maybe its some primeval instinct to stock up for the long cold winter, but by Christmas we're all ready to go at it again. The key word remains 'gluttony...
Since he could not have what he wanted, he tried to want what he could have... that clause might be the key to this little gem of a book. Detailing his life up until his sixth year on a hard-scrabble south Georgia farm during the Depression, Crews joyously, almost perversely, catalogues the variety of horrors that can befall a young child. But the book is much more than just a catalogue, more than just biography--it is, as Crews writes, "the biography of a childhood which necessarily is the biography of a place, a way of life gone forever...
Strong performances by Crimson swimmers in the key events kept the outcome of the meet in question until the final moments. Freshman Barb Niles turned in a personal best for the 100-yd. breastroke, but the Crimson was denied the needed one-two victory in the deciding race when she was touched out for second at the finish...
Snyder and his co-workers discovered in 1973 that the nerves of the brain and spinal cord contain specific sites to which opiates must bind in order to produce their effect. Morphine and similar drugs fit into these so-called opiate receptors like a key into a lock. Once in the lock, the drugs are able to dampen pain signals to the brain. Snyder then went on to map the distribution of the receptors in the brain. Kosterlitz and Hughes expanded on the research. They wondered why the body should evolve receptors for foreign narcotics; perhaps the body produced...
People started paying the junior Phi Beta Kappa key-winner to tutor their children. "It was pretty primitive compared to what I'm doing now," Kaplan said recently during an interview. "Forty years ago there were no standardized tests. The big thing was grade-point average, so I tutored in the three R's." Kaplan's engaging whiz-kid personality rubbed off on his clients--his reputation grew to the point where he was tutoring 200 students on a one-to-one basis...