Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lanes with thousands of magnetic mines. In the first four months of the war, the Germans sank 215 ships (748,000 tons); by the following spring the toll was 460. One sub even slipped into the supposedly impregnable Scottish base at Scapa Flow and torpedoed the battleship Royal Oak, with a loss of 833 lives...
Visibly ailing since Memorial Day, Austin's historic Treaty Oak -- alleged site of a treaty signing by Native Americans and Father of Texas Stephen F. Austin -- has been receiving the kind of diligent attention usually given a gravely ill head of state. A team of eleven has meticulously removed the contaminated soil from around its huge root network, and last week billionaire H. Ross Perot flew in 18 technical specialists from around the nation to assist in a bedside diagnosis...
...Workers used illegal drugs at the most sensitive facilities: Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos and Hanford...
...Baltimore the physicists proclaimed their answer: no way. After weeks of thorough experimentation, researchers from numerous prestigious institutions, including M.I.T., Caltech, Yale and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, reported that they had found no evidence of "cold" fusion. The scientists seemed incensed that they had wasted their time trying to replicate an error-filled experiment and chided the University of Utah for requesting a $25 million federal grant based on sloppy research. Said Caltech physicist Steven Koonin: "We are suffering from the incompetence and perhaps the delusions of Professors Pons and Fleischmann." When the nine members of the cold-fusion review...
...Smithsonian owns virtually all CFA observational and computational facilities, including the Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass., the George R. Agassiz Station in Fort Davis, Tex., the 176-inch equivalent Multiple Mirror (MMT) telescope at the Whipple Oberservatory in Amado, Ariz., and the VAX II Cluster mainframe computers at the CFA, which can perform two million calculations per second...