Word: peel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Country Singer Kenny Rogers boom across a small store where four youngsters are huddled over a Space Invaders screen. In the streets of Peking, long-haired young men in dapper trenchcoats walk arm in arm with girlfriends in high heels. Near by, in neon-lit consumer emporiums, grizzled countryfolk peel off huge sheaves of banknotes to buy TV sets to take back to their villages. The Jianguo Hotel is a replica of the Holiday Inn in Palo Alto, Calif. Not far away, Maxim's de Pékin serves haute cuisine at $70 a head. The regiments of bicycles that clog...
...hope to peel back the eyeballs of everyone in the U.S. who will not support-the kind of policy being implemented now," McAward added...
...turned striped cloth used to lead horses on ceremonial occasions into a jersey. He made tucked cotton jumpsuits so intricate that he evoked origami, the ancient art of paper folding, and he turned a farmer's backpack into a knit jacket. Says he: "I was trying to peel away to the limit of fashion...
...basic building blocks of matter. Today, more than ever before, such exploration requires complicated machines like Fermilab's Tevatron. By pummeling the nucleus, the atom's central mass, with protons or other subatomic particles, physicists can literally tear apart the fabric of matter, somewhat like peeling layers from an onion. Every peel, however, requires increasingly powerful and costlier machines. As Stanford Physicist Wolfgang Panofsky notes, "The smaller the objects, the bigger the microscope we must use to see them...
...call them generic trains. The little old Zephyr was all we had left. They had the last dining car. I tell you, the rest is airline food. They cook it somewhere else. On the Zephyr, you actually see real food. They crack eggs on the Zephyr. They actually peel potatoes on board...