Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think I'm bringing things under control." She talks too openly about insecurities, she thinks. It's not that interviewers lie, "but for instance you tell them that you have felt suicidal-who hasn't? -that you had the idea of wading into the ocean in North Carolina and swimming to New York. Then that comes out in a magazine, and it becomes a permanent fact about you, when really it's just momentary." All of this becomes heavy to carry around, and so does the slightly frowzy sexpot image evoked by a couple of injudicious...
...Berber, a language known from the Atlantic Ocean to the Siwa oasis in Egypt, important for Africo-Semitic (I am using this expression to avoid the controversial expression Hamito-Semitic or the meaningless term Afro-Asiatic.) studies...
...fight someone, but because they want to know who they are. Roots is all of our stories. It's the same for me or any black. It's just a matter of filling in the blanks?which person, living in which village, going on what ship, across the same ocean, slavery, emancipation, the struggle for freedom." Now, Haley says, "some very important things are happening among young blacks. The generation of the 1960s was so quick to label all older blacks as 'Uncle Toms.' Roots has helped turn this around. People come up and thank me for making them...
...Fire Island--a 32-mile stretch of sandy New York resort towns, whose main purpose is to keep the Atlantic Ocean off of the front lawns of all those nice mainlanders on nearby Long Island--my neighbors and I huddled together on the pleasantly rickety old ferry dock, waiting for the Coast Guard to make good on its early-morning evacuation order. Earlier, a few of my closer and more foolhardy friends had announced their plan to defy the local honchos and ride out the storm, and for a while I had entertained hopes of joining their struggle against...
...whom the theory is now named. Last year three scientists -James Hays of Columbia, John Imbrie of Brown University and Nicholas Shackleton of Cambridge University in England-published the strongest evidence yet that Milankovitch was right. Analyzing cores of sediments taken from beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, the trio assembled an accurate record of the earth's climate dating back 450,000 years and correlated this information with data about the earth's orbit...