Word: mode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning of the play, these three characters are left alone on the stage for thirty-five minutes of almost unrelieved tedium. When Nancy arrives, at the end of the first act, the play livens up a bit. Where the others have just one mode of expression, she has three--she giggles, she sighs, and she snorts like a pig. This takes about fifteen minutes to pall completely. In the last act she loses a third of her effectiveness by not snorting any more...
Congress's mode of governing the District seriously limits the action the city can take towards meeting its problems. But Washington's problems are not by any means all administrative. The city's Negro population has gained a great deal over the last ten years, but it demands a good deal more justifiably, and many of its demands are extra-governmental...
...selection is huge: tripes a la mode de caen and cassoulet toulousain from France, passion fruit and paw-paw from Africa, canned minnows from Poland, hearts of palm from Brazil, 180 different varieties of honey, and Scandinavian sardines packed in six kinds of sauce. There are instant coffees from at least a score of countries, including Hungary and Arabia; there are quail eggs and cuttle fish (a member of the squid family) packed in their own ink. And there are betel nuts, which, excepting coffee and tea, rank as the most widely used narcotic in the world...
...roughly three minutes at the peak of the rocket's orbit, the spectrometer functioned in its first mode of operation, recording the intensity of ultraviolet light over a narrow range of frequencies. Three and one half scans were completed before the Aerobee plunged back towards earth...
...spectrometer's second mode-of operation was not tested during the Sept. 6 flight. In this mode the 40 lb. gold-plated box that holds the electronic equipment will scan up-and-down and across the solar disc in order to pick up an entire image of the sun at these short wave-lengths. Scientists expect that these ultraviolet "pictures" of the sun will help them better understand chromospheric solar flares...