Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around 10:20 p.m., a projectile broke the plate glass window, spewing glass all over the common room and on the back of a student watching television there, witnesses said. The student, who was cut on the ear and the back, went to University Health Services but said the wounds were not serious and did not require stitches...
...Throat then offered some other inside knowledge of the Organization's methods. He explained, for example, how the HDS cooks casually apply oil to various dishes. Neither of us could fathom The Organization's motive in greasing our pasta as if it were a wheel bearing rather than a plate of noodles...
...earth is constantly moving underfoot. Its surface, cracked like ancient pottery, is broken into 15 large pieces. These pieces of crust, called plates, restlessly roam about, driven by plumes of molten rock that roil up from the planet's superheated core. Many of the world's largest earthquakes occur at the boundaries of such plates. The San Andreas fault system divides the Pacific plate and the North American plate, which grind past each other at the pace of 2 in. a year. But this movement of the plates is not uniform. Along fault zones the plates tend to become "locked...
...just where and when will the next big break occur? Here scientists are beginning to make headway. Geophysicist Wayne Thatcher of the USGS notes that the 1906 quake ruptured a 260-mile-long section of the San Andreas, extending from Cape Mendocino to San Juan Bautista. But the plate movement along the southern portion of the rupture was minor compared with the far greater movement in the north. To Christopher Scholz of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, this meant one thing: the southern section of the quake zone had retained an enormous amount of stress...
...flowing relentlessly past. Pick up a petal. Examine it, savor it, press it away between the pages of private memory. That's photography. Its birth was announced in 1839, when the French Academy made public Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's new process for fixing images on a metal plate and, a few months later, Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot broke the news of his own separate process. Since then, photography has been the best way of making time stand still...