Word: lock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spacecraft will break up into approximately 500 pieces, with most weighing less than ten pounds, NASA officials said. However, the air lock shroud weighs 3900 pounds and the lead film safe weighs 5100 pounds. Both objects are likely to strike the earth at speeds greater than 260 miles per hour...
Instead of competing with others for scarce supplies, the U.S. might be wiser to take the lead in developing alternative sources, like making oil from shale rock and coal, which would help break OPEC's lock. More and more, energy experts are coming to the view that Government will have to provide grants and guarantees to help get alternative energy industries going, much as the Government's Reconstruction Finance Corp. helped establish the synthetic rubber industry during World War II. The Administration is beginning to show some interest in such ideas, but it wants the money to come...
...treating the nation's estimated 2 million to 5 million schizophrenics. Already tested on 30 patients, it is based on pioneering studies of the brain's receptors, or molecular sites to which its own drug-like chemicals bind-almost as if they were keys in a lock. A blood sample from a patient is added to a tube containing animal brain tissue and a radioactively tagged chemical known to bind to particular receptors. Whatever drug is in the patient's blood displaces the test chemical at these sites, and the radioactive tracer left behind can easily...
...compares the cross section of a moment in history to a severed leg of lamb, "where you see the ends of the muscles, nerves, sinews and bone of one piece matching a similar ar rangement in the other." His characters "sink their teeth" into "weighty problems," accept things "lock, stock and barrel," and come to clanging conclusions like: "The old order of things was as dead as a doornail." After an hour or two of this, who could be blamed for edging away from the bar, despite Farrell's undoubted substance and seriousness, and going inside for some dinner...
...Whom did the Senators get for Don Lock...