Word: reckons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emptive attack. But there is no way that the Kremlin leaders could be sure that the U.S. would leave those missiles in the ground once it was certain that Soviet warheads were on their way. The Kremlin leaders would have to reckon with the possibility that during the 30 minutes' warning that the U.S. President would have from satellites, radar and other means, he would decide to shoot the works...
...cutting back on salt, but the chefs inspired substitution of splashes of bourbon for soy sauce has proved "delectable." At home, Boston's Sue Wymelenberg banned salt from her table. "The taste of breads, pasta, cookies, omelets and fish was unmarred," she says. "But I didn't reckon on new potatoes and fresh peas-it took three zestless mouthfuls to bring out the shaker again." Senior Editor Timothy Foote, who edited the story and therefore "sits above the salt," is noted as a trencherman of more than fair enthusiasm. Since he worked on the cover story, his gastronomic...
...largest, Hubble discovered that everywhere he looked in the heavens, the galaxies seemed to be moving away from each other, like flecks on the surface of an expanding balloon, their speed increasing in direct proportion to their distance. By assuming the universe was expanding, astronomers used that ratio to reckon the universe's age and size. Trouble was that the Hubble constant proved notably fickle, as succeeding generations kept measuring the distance of different celestial bodies and getting different results. Admits Allan Sandage, who is using the new 100-in. Du Pont telescope at Las Campanas, Chile, to make...
Many musically inclined children are scared away by the forbidding sight of a piano, the makers of the Pianosaurus reckon. To counter this difficulty, they've created a small piano housed in the innards of a purple, very happy, dinosaur...
...killing. Another city will rise and ours will wane. It is un der the sign of the King.' 'Will he live, then, after all?' 'He is dying, as I told you. But his sign is walking along the constellations, further than we can reckon in years. You will not see it setting in your...