Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study of chromosome behavior, concedes that this notion is still close to science fiction. But he can point out that a complete carrot plant has indeed been grown from a single carrot cell. At any rate, other scientists are becoming interested; some have even risked life and limb to contribute to his frozen...
Couple No. 2 (Christian Holder and Rebecca Wright), in revealing skin-toned body suits that appear to have been glued on, carry out a lyrical sequence of serpentine, limb-entangling maneuvers that resemble moving illustrations for a graduate course in the Kamasutra. The third duo (Susan Magno and Tony Catanzaro) assay an updated version of that dreadful comic cliche of Pigalle nightclubs, an apache dance. The will-they, won't-they jousting ends, amusingly enough, when the girl resoundingly slaps her passionate but reluctant lover. He swats her one right back...
...first to cut the prime rate, and other bankers quickly followed. Last week, ignoring pleas and pressure from the Nixon Administration, Bunting acted again. This time he hiked the prime, from 5½% to 5¾%. By week's end Bunting was out on a long limb, because no other major banks had followed. Still, he was unworried, figuring that the general rise of other interest rates will soon bring the other banks around. As he told TIME Correspondent John Tompkins: "I like to do things that others consider risky-when I have an 80% chance of winning...
Sadat is not the only one out on a limb. It is possible that the middleman in the current diplomatic exercise?the U.S.?and the two antagonists could all emerge feeling ill-used. The U.S. appears increasingly convinced that the Israelis have grown too rigid, as indeed they have. The Israelis feel that the Americans, particularly Rogers and his State Department, are so anxious to restore U.S. influence in the Arab world that they are willing to impose unacceptable risks on Israel. Golda Meir's government maintains that its policy of tenacity will compel the Arabs to come around...
...Solecki, reports that at least one of the nine Neanderthal skeletons uncovered in the Shanidar cave was buried with flowers. Another skeleton was that of a man about 40 (equivalent to an age of 80 by modern life-spans) who had been born with a withered right arm. The limb had apparently been amputated above the elbow by a Neanderthal "surgeon." The man's age and physical condition indicated to the scientists that he had been unable to fend for himself. They surmised that his fellows kept him alive until he met his death in an accidental rockfall inside...