Word: length
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Smith had just won the 200-meter dash in a record-breaking 19.8 sec. Carlos, his bearded teammate from San Jose State College, had finished third. Together, they turned up for the awards ceremony shoeless, wearing knee-length black stockings and a black glove on one hand (the right for Tommie, the left for John). Along with Australia's Peter Norman, the second-place finisher, they mounted the victory pedestal to receive their medals. Then, as the U.S. flag was raised and the band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner, the two black athletes bowed their heads and raised...
...Watson and Crick who clarified the nature of the genetic code. They demonstrated that each stair of the double helix consists of a pair of chemical compounds called nucleotides. There are only four different kinds of nucleotides in DNA, but the order in which they appear along the length of the helix varies considerably, suggesting that they are arranged in a coded sequence. To be able to call up one of the 20 different amino acids using only four nucleotide "letters," scientists decided, each genetic code "word" has to be three letters long. But how to break the code...
Andy Warhol seems to be no less enthusiastic about the venture. "It's fun," he says, "and really pretty, really great." Naturally he now plans to turn out a full-length video-tape movie...
Most of these men are in trouble, some perhaps beyond rescuing, but together they represent the best political hope of 1968, and no length of odds can make time spent on their behalf a poor investment...
...could debate at length the relative merits of Humphrey and Nixon. Humphrey, once relieved of the burdens of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, might be able to lead us out of war. He would perhaps be better able to communicate with the black people of the country and might once again become a spokesman for the poor and the oppressed...