Word: mushroomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ending in a most unwoodsman-like display of burned fingers, smoldering copies of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and constant invocations of deity piercing loudly and unecologically through the bucolic serenity of the Northland forest. Earlier, we pulled in to pay and encountered an old woman who began to babble about mushrooms--she was hell-bent, she told us, for the mushroom watcher's club meeting at nearby Nicolet College. She clutched her mushroom directory. Her daughter, a pious-looking woman with butterfly glasses who ran the place, rolled her eyes in embarassment after her mother had bustled out, and remarked that...
...lamp. International conferences and agreements have tried to stem the spread of atomic weapons, but the nightmare of potential nuclear holocaust persists. Recent events, in fact, suggest that the dangers from nuclear proliferation and the atomic arms race are probably greater now than at any time since the first mushroom cloud rose over New Mexico's desert near Alamogordo three decades ago. Last week, for instance, West Germany agreed to sell Brazil facilities and technology that could enable Brasilia to develop nuclear arms. Meanwhile, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union are pushing ahead with the development...
COMMAND POST IN THE SKY: Defense Secretary James Schlesinger this month urged Congress to approve the construction of a squadron of modified Boeing 707s equipped with monstrous, mushroom-shaped radar domes for the Air Force's new airborne warning and control system (AWACS). Literally a command post in the sky, each plane will cost $111 million-the most expensive plane ever built by the Air Force. Packed with computers, radars and jamming gear, the AW ACS will be able to spot far-off targets, including very low-flying planes, and feed instructions to wide-ranging U.S. combat aircraft. Over...
Music surrounded the Chungs from the beginning. Their father is a businessman whose enterprises have included operating the Korean restaurant at the Seattle World's Fair and running a mushroom plantation. Their mother loved music, and each child began piano lessons by five. The children agree that they immediately took to music, if not to the piano. Myung-Wha used to fall asleep at the keyboard until one day her mother turned up with a cello and a cello teacher. "I had never heard a cello," she recalls. A year and a half later, at eleven, she became...
...tensions mount in Southern Europe, Albanian warplanes drop nuclear bombs on Naples. Tel Aviv is destroyed by a nuclear attack from an unidentified country; Egyptian atomic bombs devastate London and Washington; China, the Soviet Union, the U.S. and Britain are drawn into war. Soon mushroom clouds cover nearly the entire planet...