Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was the start of life, and chemists have often tried to copy the process themselves. They have mixed the proper gases in a laboratory flask, put water in the bottom to simulate the ocean, and shot electric sparks into it to do the work of the ancient lightning. When they analyzed the water, they found many an interesting chemical, some of them characteristic of living organisms, but they did not find nucleic acid, the essential substance at the heart of life...
...worked briefly in the family lumber business, skippered a PT boat during World War II. A friend of the late Ernest Hemingway, Shevlin is an avid big-game hunter, polo player, deep-sea fisherman and golfer. Durie and Tom Shevlin now own a white colonial mansion across North Ocean Boulevard from the Joseph P. Kennedy estate in Palm Beach...
...benefit of waiting patients and passersby. "I don't claim any miracles from it," she says. "It is my idea that God is available and loves everybody, and we might as well get in tune and let him help." Some ministers and rabbis wonder whether this apparent ocean of national prayer is more than ankle-deep. "Prayer is often a conditioned reflex," worries Dr. Edgar S. Brown Jr., executive director of the Commission of Worship for the Lutheran Church in America. "It's a handy thing to have around in time of trouble." Other clerical skeptics argue that...
...found pleasure in destroying whatever his son created. Unlikely as these stories seemed, each one that the woman investigated invariably checked out. All of her dammed up passion and maternity were placed at the man's service. Her resources of love, she thought, were as vast as the ocean. But she had never before met anyone like the man: his need was as deep as the pit of hell, and as terrible...
...planemaking giants are again banking sharply into the passenger-jet market. There, where U.S. planemakers dominate so much of the skies, the going is rough, but the Britons are beginning to make progress with a wide variety of new rear-engine jets, ranging from small city-hoppers to lengthy ocean-spanners. Four, in particular, stand...