Word: reveals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials pointed out that the opinion did not exempt the bugs that the FBI has long planted, without judicial sanction, along Washington's Embassy Row. Anyone who phoned an embassy and was later accused of a crime, they argued, would now be entitled to force the Government to reveal such eavesdrops-even though they might involve delicate international affairs. In turning down the Government's motion for a new hearing, Justice Potter Stewart noted that the Court had ordered the release of records only when the eavesdropping violated the Fourth Amendment-and that it had not ruled...
Perhaps most intriguing is what the moon may reveal about the earth's murky infancy. The earth was formed some 4.5 billion years ago, but the slow, relentless process of its evolution wiped out all traces of its earliest years; the oldest known terrestrial rocks date back about 3.3 billion years. "What has happened during the missing 1.2 billion years?" wonders Astronomer Robert Jastrow, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. "We do not know; they are a blank page in the history of our planet. If the age of the rocks on the surface...
...nature of altruism itself is the topic of increasingly sophisticated research: eventually, they may reveal how more people can be encouraged to leave the crowd and take the crucial first helpful step. Meanwhile, Latane and Darley contend that being aware of these antisocial pressures is the first step toward resisting them. Thus prepared, they contend, "we can choose to see distress and step forward to relieve...
Although Wood thinks the change that any trace of life will be found on the moon is "highly unlikely," he added that the results of his tests are hard to anticipate. He feels that the break-down of the samples could reveal much about the possibility of volcanic activity on the moon. Also, the data could strengthen the theory that there was once water on the moon...
...whizzes through Descartes, Locke, Freud and existentialism, all experienced not as abstractions but as personal modes of apprehending himself and the mysterious island around him. Like Speranza, Tournier's novel is an island, unique, self-sufficient, imaginative, well worth exploring, and with a number of minor marvels to reveal...