Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deflating Balloon. There were lighter moments. Harvard Yard was twice the scene of a "Music and Light Show." Students projected cool blue and green images on a sheet hung in the archway of Sever Hall, to serve as backdrops for the sounds of two rock groups. Some students danced on the sidewalks. There was a whiff of pot in the air. A poster announced: "Truth is music is love and all of us together...
Ethel was to display the same stoic fiber eleven years later, when her brother, George Skakel Jr., was killed in the crash of a light plane in Idaho?a crash that also claimed Bobby's close friend and onetime Kennedy aide Dean Markham...
...years of detailed work, the Edelman team learned by chemical and physical analysis that this particular molecule contains 19,996 atoms (of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur) grouped in 1,320 amino-acid units, which in turn are assembled with the aid of chemical bonds into two "light" chains of 214 amino acids apiece and two "heavy" chains of 446 each (see diagram). Schematically, the four chains, in which the acids are strung like beads, look like a letter T. The middle part of the T varies little from antibody to antibody. The chains' ends at the tips...
Thus, few Britons were surprised when on Budget Day last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins announced higher taxes and other austerity measures. This time, politics impelled Jenkins to go light on wage earners and to hit business heavily. Still, his prescription calls for much the same medicine that has so far proved ineffectual in curing Britain's ailing economy. Somewhat lamely, Jenkins told the House of Commons that the long-promised economic recovery "has been a good deal slower than we had hoped...
...last Thursday's Faculty meeting, Rosovsky said that "increased student consultation and participation is entirely possible within the framework designed by us." But in light of Tuesday's vote, he said, "obviously many of my colleagues hold a very different opinion...