Word: originated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prodded by Devine's charges, the NRC made a second investigation and discovered that Cincinnati Gas did not keep proper records of the welds or of the origin of materials used at the plant, and did not test welds according to NRC specifications. The agency labeled the quality of work at Zimmer "indeterminate...
...internal communist enemies. Periodically, as with the Korean war, local quarrels threaten to escalate to world wars. Today Soviet and American military planners share the view that once the superpowers become involved war will spread, and they see the explosive politics around the Persian Gulf as the most likely origin of the next great...
Most of the stations said that they chose not to run the ads because they prefer public service announcements of local origin...
...even found cause for amusement when her son Charles confided that his various love affairs had been interrupted by about of impotence. "We laughed uproariously," she writes her daughter. "I told him that I was delighted that he had been punished for his sins at the precise point of origin." She could not resist communicating the dictum that was pronounced upon Charles by Ninon de 1'Enclos, the celebrated courtesan: "His soul is made of mush, his body of wet paper and his heart is like a pumpkin fricasseed in snow...
...unraveling of the DNA double helix was one of the great events in science, comparable to the splitting of the atom or the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. It also marked the maturation of a bold new science: molecular biology. Under this probing discipline, man could at last explore-and understand-living things at their most fundamental level: that of their atoms and molecules...