Word: seed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retirement home that Francis never visits. Having eased his way on sympathy, he plays it by ear and keeps an eye open for opportunities. " 'You'll bring your dragon brooch?' he said, speaking of their honeymoon. 'And your little sapphires and your seed pearls?' Surprised, Julia replied that jewellery could be a nuisance when you were travelling. 'I want to show you off.' sHe smiled...
...computer HAL not only operates the space ship and talks in a supercilious tenor but is so exalted by its own superiority ("I am incapable of making an error") that it starts killing the astronauts who interfere with its plans. In a 1976 MGM effort titled Demon Seed, a presumptuous robot goes even further and fulfills the sinful ambition of making Julie Christie pregnant. But then came Star Wars, in which the cutely diminutive Artoo Deetoo and See Threepio help to rescue the imprisoned Princess Leia. Thus Hollywood found ways to reduce Frankenstein's heirs to figures of camp...
...LEADERS of the Moral Majority crusade are absolutely convinced that they are right. Once the fire has seized the convert--once the seed of conviction is planted at a circus-tent revival meeting or through a multi-cassette mail-order course in Christian fundamentalism--it burns, un-flickering, fueled by the comfort of Absolutes. A protecting barrier between the flame and the winds of thought, rationality, diversity, and complication, the Bible is the answer book. Right-wing conservatism--the Way. The Book--the Truth. The flame--the Light. Only one thing missing...
...Crimson's third seed, Geordie Lemmon, surrendered the first game to his adversary before taking three consecutive wins. Mitch Reese at number four, sixth-ranked Charlie Duffy and seventh-spotted John Dineen all captured easy three-game triumphs...
...bitter. And despite their record, the stick-women received an opportunity to return to post-season play after a year's absence because not enough qualified teams applied to the EAIAW Division I tournament. Of course, with a 4-7-4 record entering the event, they were the last seed and played their first-round game against the top-seeded Wildcats, whom they had tied in Durham September...