Word: lock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learn more about the taste buds. Spread across the tongue, these clusters of cells are sensitive to the four major taste sensations: sweet, sour, bitter and salt. Physiologists believe that parts of the food molecules actually fit loosely into receptors on the cells, somewhat like a key in a lock, thereby sending a signal to the appropriate center in the brain. If the structure of the sites could ever be determined precisely, chemists might be able to fashion matching molecules that produced the desired taste sensations...
...Washington, which can detect power budding in the dark, has now had eight weeks to lock its sensors on Jordan and decide this is no good ole short-order cook. It has found he is enough at ease with power not to have to show it. His informality lulls people into relaxing their guard, encourages them to underrate him. Those who have crossed him learn all too late that he is an infighter who can hold his own in any political company and a far more complex personality than appearances suggest. House Speaker Tip O'Neill has dubbed...
Haynes said yesterday that Wilson and other academics have helped a "lock-em-up mentality" in public opinion. He called the policies Wilson tends to favor "reactionary and conservative...
...Grand Arabesque, Third Time" (of which there are five or six variations in the exhibit) does not fare so well. The dancer has begun to lose her balance; and Degas communicates this with subtle wit by having her thrust her right arm away from the wing-spread position and lock elbow out in front--down towards the ground. Her palm has opened and is ready to break her fall. Of course, the statuettes leave unsaid that this maneuver might also break all the bones in the dancer's thin wrist were she to plummet forward. But one suspects that Degas...
...squad, the oddly named State Research Bureau (S.R.B.), a sadistic crew of sports-shirted killers who wear dark glasses even at night and seem to have carte blanche to kill. They will flag down a car in broad daylight in downtown Kampala and drag the terrified driver out and lock him in the car trunk, then drive the car away, all in full view of passive onlookers who know better than to protest or intervene. Not a single person bundled off in this manner has ever been seen alive again. A day or two later, the body, badly bloated...