Word: mushroomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cockpit. A tongue of flame followed, then crept back along the top of the fuselage. The plane began to collapse with a series of small reports. Finally, the tail section keeled down, and half an hour after touchdown, three big explosions, like distant summer thunder, sent up a mushroom pall of black smoke as debris and sparks sprayed an area a kilometer across. All that remained this morning was the tail assembly and a motor...
...couldn't say as much for Chez Dreyfus (44 Church St.), but there it is the customers that make the going or the gossiping good. President Bok eats there on his working days--how regularly that is is hard to say--and he tends to favor chopped sirloin with mushroom sauce (during a hot summer...
...Vogue take a photographic peek at Caroline's and John Kennedy Jr.'s "children-and-study room," the remodeled library of her Fifth Avenue Manhattan apartment. On the study table were some of Jackie's treasures: some black coral she found while diving near Yucatan, a mushroom on a twig from Angkor Wat, two bronze Egyptian cats and, perhaps revealingly, a string of blue Greek worry beads...
Science did indeed bring forth a Brave New World-of transistors and miniaturized electronics, antibiotics and organ transplants, high-speed computers and jet travel. But progress came at a price. It was the genius of science that also made possible such horrors as the exploding mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, the chemically ruined forests of Indochina, the threat of a shower of ICBMs, a plant increasingly littered with technology's fallout. It is this Faustian side of science, with its insatiable drive to conquer new fields, explore new territory and build bigger machines, regardless of costs or consequences that worries...
...Your cover story on Carlos Castaneda and Indian sorcery [March 5] presented me rather like the Clifford Irving of the mushroom-munching set, a reputation I neither enjoy nor deserve...