Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...species of beetles on earth (J.B.S. Haldane once observed that God "is inordinately fond of beetles"), and that there may be at least 1 million more that nobody has yet identified? Or that one species eats only roses and another only snails? Or that yet another can imitate the light of a female firefly so exactly that when a male firefly comes to mate, it gets eaten...
...take over the postnuclear world. "Many millions of years will have to pass," he writes, "before a beetle particularly loved by God . . . will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light." It is a prospect that nobody else could have imagined...
...mentor in all things Italian." James Beard traveled to Italy for Hazan's cooking class. She preached the virtues of extra-virgin olive oil long before the Mediterranean diet became a health fad, raved about pearly risottos before they became trendy, and opened up spaghetti-and-meatball mentalities to light, delicate radicchio sauces. Her three cookbooks have sold 1 million copies. Her cooking workshops in Venice have drawn students from 28 countries, including ordinary housewives, professionals and celebrities like Danny Kaye, Burt Lancaster and Joel Grey...
Thus China's turmoil is not surprising in light of its inhabitants' mounting frustrations. Nonetheless, true revolutions, as opposed to coups or intermittent mass protests, are extremely rare and all but unheard of in situations in which the state wields so much force. Without a core of . ideologically inspired revolutionaries, without its own Jacobins, Bolsheviks or even latter-day Long Marchers, China is unlikely to have a full-scale revolution...
...free: "Dark-skin Blacks." At the same time, we reached out, instinctively, and showed him our nearly-red Black (a former girlfriend once told me I was closer to orange than Black) arms. I had to suppress a laugh, as I wondered if whites are ever identified as light-skin and dark-skin whites...