Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale biologist, Ross G. Harrison, unveiled his concept of a "sculptor" and "master builder" within each living cell. The sculptor, The Times said, "molds the aboriginal clay of life into his own image," while the master builder "organizes the stuff of life into its various tissues and organs...
...this batch of V-mail wound up in an attic in Raleigh, N.C., in the house of an aunt of a serviceman. Mixed in with some old socks in an Army duffel bag, they were discovered in June by Michael Minguez, an exterminator, and turned over to Raleigh Postmaster Ross Garulski. Last week during a ceremony at the Washington headquarters of the Postal Service, Postmaster General Albert Casey, himself a World War II veteran, was host to four of the surviving letter writers who had been located. "A most unusual affair," observed Casey, as he returned letters to the four...
Continental planes, which cost up to $30,000, occasionally elude their attackers, but most buy the farm. As a result, sales are, well, taking off. The company's profits were $800,000 in 1985, and are expected to double this year. And President Ross Leggitt is seeking to widen his wars. He has already sold a few planes to the Canadian army, and is now setting his sights on the armed forces of Central and South America...
...Cain and Dashiell Hammett have unleashed stalkers of the urban wildernesses across the country. Parker and George V. Higgins cover Boston; Elmore Leonard and Loren D. Estleman have a lock on Detroit; Stephen Greenleaf and Bill Pronzini have staked out San Francisco, and Washington is in the hands of Ross Thomas. In Cincinnati, the territory belongs to Jonathan Valin...
Tough investigators are concentrated mostly in New York and in California, the Olduvai Gorge of the chivalrous gumshoe. By far the best known are the West Coast trio of Hammett's Sam Spade, Chandler's Marlowe and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer. Occasional readers of the form tend to confuse Ross with John D. MacDonald and Gregory Mcdonald. The first was born Kenneth Millar in 1915 and died three years ago of Alzheimer's disease. The second is 69 and lives in Florida, as does his popular P.I. Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent...