Word: paraffin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come to light in the mid-1930s, while the democracies still slept, Nazi Germany would have won a long lead toward building an atom bomb. In compensation, Fermi made the most important discovery of his life, that slowing neutrons by passing them through a light-element "moderator" such as paraffin increased their effectiveness, a finding that would allow releasing nuclear energy in a reactor...
Being on the cover of TIME or having yourself rendered in paraffin at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum of London could be considered a benchmark for fame and infamy. Appearing in both spots could be a benchmark for making the TIME 100. Since last April, TIME, in conjunction with CBS News, has been saluting this century's most influential men and women with the TIME 100, a series of special issues profiling 20 leaders in five categories...
...deal with this!'" And so Anderson is part of a yuppie-ish Y2K-readiness group that meets once a month to discuss risks and learn self-reliance skills. The four couples who take part are learning how to roll their own oats for cereal, shop for paraffin lamps--those don't give off smoke--and preserve fruit. French coffee presses, they have discovered, are perfect for sprouting seeds. If Martha Stewart ran a survivalist sect, it might be something like this...
Hart and a few other demonstrators emphasized the facts of the case, from bullet trajectories to paraffin stains, as the reasons why they believe there has been a cover...
...heritage last week when they "went kind of berserk" (according to one protest organizer) and threw a tantrum over the removal of paper items in their dining hall. Like latter day courtiers in 17th century France, the Eliotees banged demi-tasses of dining services-grade coffee and demanded their paraffin...