Word: rebounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Though no similar event had been seen in the Milky Way since 1604, they had observed in other galaxies great stellar explosions called supernovas. These occur when massive dying stars, like giant springs, rebound from their calamitous collapse. For days or weeks such exploding stars may shine as brightly as all the galaxy's billions of stars combined. Zwicky and Baade felt sure that the force of such a gravitational collapse and explosion could not only spray material far off into the heavens, but also actually crush the very atoms in the core of a star. Orbiting electrons would...
...draft an expulsion resolution for the full assembly. When polled informally, 73 members−the required two-thirds−say they would expel Geralds immediately. One factor in the minds of many is that this is an election year. Legislators fear that a failure to expel Geralds will rebound unfavorably against them at the polls. Says the house majority floor leader Joseph Forbes, "Fifteen or 16 swing seats are at stake...
...fortnight ago might have sent prices into a spin. Some highly technical midweek moves by the Federal Reserve to drain money out of banks and thus nudge up interest rates depressed stock prices for only a few hours. Traders concentrated instead on cheerier trends, above all a long overdue rebound in the dollar on world markets...
Terry O'Reilly flipped home a rebound from just beyond the crease at 1:50 of sudden death overtime Wednesday night, boosting the Bruins to a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks and a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven NHL quarterfinal playoff...
Unemployment increased slightly to 6.2% of the labor force in March, from 6.1% in February, but the rise was insignificant. Moreover, economic growth is likely to rebound sharply in the second quarter after a winter lull caused by snowstorms and the coal strike. The threat to the economy is less stagflation than plain old inflation...