Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both these holocausts were caused by winds which whipped the fires into swirling columns called fire whirls, or vortexes. These whirls speed up the burning rate and spread fires by picking up flaming bits and dropping them outside the previous boundaries of the fire. They occur in almost every fire, and occasionally grow as large as 200 feet across and 1000 feet high, producing winds of 200 miles per hour...
...speeches. Costumes, sets, and direction were the same for every production. An author could not see the wardrobe and make-up before the first performance, and the director could not silence the ushers during a play. Stanislavsky "declared war on all the conventionalities of the theatre, wherever they might occur." His method for an actor preparing a role combined physical training (speech and dance) with mental conditioning. Each actor immersed himself in his part and learned the thoughts and feelings of his character so well that, using his own emotions, he could give that character life...
...Award in Pure Chemistry was given to Dudley R. Herschbach, professor of Chemistry, for his measurements of the energy changes that occur when two different molecules collide to produce a third kind of molecule...
Most of the preventable deaths, said Dr. McNamara, occur in the first three months of life. That is usually too early for obvious symptoms to develop-such as blueness of the extremities and lips, which would alert many a parent and any physician. Blueness and significant heart murmurs are almost certain not to appear until later...
Such moments occur frequently in this racy, juvenile, artfully photographed peep show by Director Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman). In 1950 France's Max Ophuls made La Ronde, a subtle, deliciously graceful film based on Arthur Schnitzler's period play Reigen. Without losing the rueful cynicism of the original, Ophuls described the efficacy of lust through ten amorous intrigues involving five men and five women. A prostitute takes a soldier. The soldier takes a chambermaid. The chambermaid takes a young man. And so on, until the last lover completes the cycle in the prostitute...