Word: petered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhodesian response may ultimately lie in the hands of Lieut. General Peter Walls, commander of Salisbury's security forces, who flew to London last week to join the talks. A tough soldier who has directed the relentless seven-year fight against the guerrillas, Walls is unlikely to permit the dismantling of his 52,000-man force, much less its integration with the 40,000-man Patriotic Front forces...
Even a demonstrably lesser drama, such as Ladyhouse Blues at Manhattan's Theater of St. Peter's Church, shows the deep affinity linking the family with the emotions and experiences that fire up a stage. Within the family-sometimes at scalding intensity-we get our first inklings of the nature of love, hate, time, memory, remorse and reconciliation...
...about 4 billionths of an inch. Computers can do 80 million calculations a second (and ostensibly 6.9 trillion a day). Other recent news: a suspicion that the proton, a basic natural building block, may be unstable. It may indeed be decaying at such a rate that it would peter out in a million billion billion billion years. The effect of that notion is finally not mathematical but purely poetic...
...Touraj Touran--troubled Harvard the most. Brautaset played like a halfback much of the time, sending short passes to Bowen or dribbling clear before sending long balls down the wings. With ten minutes gone, the highly skilled Bowen made a pretty, right-footed dab of a bouncing ball over Peter Sergienko's head before racing down the wing and centering. He and Touran repeatedly worked the ball towards the middle of the field near the Crimson penalty box. Their eforts, however, came to nought...
...scrum's ball-control allowed the backs to score two tries. Peter Hilton, the fly half, scored a try and a conversion in the first half. He also booted two penalty kicks for six points in the second. David Miller also scored a try on a 15-yd. run in the first half...