Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Verrett was furious. "My studies were not false," she said, insisting that on the basis of her work and that of her associate, Dr. Marvin Legator, cyclamate may well produce deformities, transmissible mutations or cancer-or all three. "Mr. Finch does not seem to consider that the next species might be human. It's impossible to predict what the effects might be in other animal species, including man, but the fact that we do have a positive result indicates the need for further investigation of its effects." Dr. Verrett accused the FDA of dragging its feet, pointing out that...
...seconds one night last spring, the blinding flash of a huge meteor lit up the sky over central Mexico. A short time later, a B57 sped to the scene from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Its mission was to collect any debris that might still be adrift after the fireball's searing entry into the earth's atmosphere. For the second time in history, investigators had been alerted quickly enough to seek such dust, which provides invaluable clues to the origin and chemical makeup of meteorites...
Writing in Science, the Miami seismologists argue that nuclear devices might relieve the stresses before they go on the rampage. Exploded two to three miles underground at intervals of twelve to 30 miles along a fault zone, the bombs would set off a series of relatively small shocks. Properly timed, these jolts would jog along the crust ever so slightly to release the forces working against it. The blasts would, in effect, be seismic safety valves, letting off small but significant amounts of pressure whenever an earthquake threatened...
Small Aftershocks. "The chances are small, but not zero," says Seismologist Lynn Sykes of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. He and other scientists think that a less dangerous method of earthquake control might be to pump liquid into a fault region. Such fluids would relieve stresses by acting, in part, as underground lubricants. Yet this method also poses dangers. In the Denver area, for example, recent shocks were apparently triggered by the disposal of chemical wastes in deep underground wells...
Brancusi did not mingle with the café crowds, but he was obviously aware of what was going on. Upon receiving a commission to do a funerary monument in Rumania, he began work on a kneeling bronze woman. Starting with a violently agitated figure that Rodin might have been proud to acknowledge, Brancusi went through several successively simplified versions until he arrived at the motionless Prayer he finally cast. Though still conventional in form, the mourner's classic calm and smoothed-over details foreshadow aspects of Brancusi's mature work...