Word: rosetta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon is a Rosetta Stone of the planets...
...Nirenberg, then an obscure young scientist at the National Institutes of Health, provided the biological Rosetta stone. After synthesizing a single helix with half-stairs that were the equivalent of only one of DNA's nucleotides-adenine (A)-he added it to a solution containing all 20 amino acids. Only one protein was produced in the solution. It consisted entirely of a chain of amino-acid molecules called phenylalanine. Thus, Nirenberg concluded, a three-letter code word made up of adenine nucleotides (AAA) was nature's instruction to the cell to use phenylalanine in building a protein...
Discovered in a dusty trunk in Trieste, a hitherto unpublished manuscript by James Joyce has been treated by Viking and the academic Joyce industry as if it were a combination of a new Dead Sea Scroll, the Rosetta stone, and a papyrus by Parmenides the Eleatic. All for ten bucks a throw -a throw being exactly 16 pages...
Private Siberia. Though slowed by age, surviving members go on doing their assigned chores. In the colony's crafts shop last week, Frank Rosetta, 73, and Reg Herbison, 81, were still making picture frames and statuettes for the tourists. From her apartment in "Jerusalem," one of the House of David's less than paradisaical buildings, Ada Jeffrey was minding the colony's dairy operation as she has done for 60 years. They do not expect to wait too long for the Millennium, when they will be among God's 144,000 elect, as King...
...mostly recorded there. It celebrates the faithlessness of women (Big Joe Turner's Little Bittie Gal's Blues and Johnnie Temple's Louise Louise Blues) and, on the other hand, the rascality of men, as in My Man Jumped Salty on Me, sung by Rosetta Crawford. According to Georgia White, "The blues ain't nothin' but a good woman feelin...