Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FLASHED past in an instant. We all kept cheering, of course, all 400 or so of us, waving the gold-and-white flags the nuns at school had given us. It was October 1965, after all, and to a third-grader like myself it didn't matter that the weather was far too cold for early fall, and that the heavy drizzle had all but soaked through the neat white shirt and grey pants of my parochial-school uniform. Nothing much mattered except that every student of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs School was dutifully lined along Queens Boulevard...
...worst fallacy in dealing with inflation is similar to the mistake we made in the past with cancer. We thought cancer was one disease and it was a matter of time until the "miracle cure" was discovered. We know now that cancer is not one but countless related diseases, and there will be a variety of cures, not one cure. Inflation is also caused by countless factors, and it is a great mistake to sit back and wait for a miracle cure...
...photographs, by the nature of her material, exhibit a kind of bizarre theatricality not found in Evans' portraits. She tends to tilt her camera frames backwards, thus eliminating the compositional integrity of Evans' photographs. Evans wrote in Quality: Its Image in the Arts, "Arbus' style is all her subject matter. Camera technique stops at simply automatic competence...
...Lobsters, after having their claws cracked in overtime by the New York Apples this week, will play out the strings, as it were, on the road. On Sunday they'll be in Anaheim and next Tuesday will have a chance to snap at Phoenix, but it really doesn't matter: at this point the only thing that could stop those tasty little devils from running away with the World Team Tennis Eastern Division would be an invasion of the Red Tide. Or maybe just a taste of Red Sox good luck...
...sperm. How this trick is accomplished in the body remains a puzzle; some scientists think that the woman's secretions do the job. But in the lab, experimenters usually are able to prime the sperm simply by gently bathing them in a salt solution. There is also the critical matter of timing: neither eggs nor sperm have unlimited lifetimes, nor does the uterus remain receptive for long. So egg and sperm should be quickly brought together...