Word: seismicity
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...only girl among five) and added a governess to keep order. There were plenty of parties, but according to her brother Henry, "she always got the balance right." After graduation she spent a year at Harvard getting a master's degree at the law school. That was a seismic learning experience...
RATTLED BY TWO SUBSTANTIAL EARTHQUAKES AND their rumbling aftershocks the previous weekend, Californians had reason to relax a little by last Wednesday. The ground had stopped shaking. And then, at midafternoon, came the seismic news: a Superior Court jury in Simi Valley, a bedroom community northwest of Los Angeles, had acquitted on all but one count -- and deadlocked on that -- the four white L.A. policemen on trial for beating and otherwise mistreating black motorist Rodney King...
...Count's outfit was nicknamed the Atomic Band, and the seismic swing on this set -- recorded on dates in Manhattan, Miami and Stockholm -- ought to come with a Geiger counter. Vintage arrangements by the likes of Neal Hefti and Frank Foster, players such as Thad Jones and Benny Powell, and the Count guiding the band from the piano with nimble majesty...
...Count's outfit was nicknamed the Atomic Band, and the seismic swing on this set -- recorded on dates in Manhattan, Miami and Stockholm -- ought to come with a Geiger counter. Vintage arrangements by the likes of Neal Hefti and Frank Foster, players such as Thad Jones and Benny Powell, and the Count guiding the band from the piano with nimble majesty...
Beyond fine-tuning the balance of terror, Bush's proposal was intended to help him get a grip on a more general political problem: the difficulty that statesmen have in keeping up with events, particularly in a period of seismic changes in the geopolitical landscape. Bush opened his speech with the image of the world facing a "fresh page of history before yesterday's ink has even dried." He might have been speaking about the ink on two documents in particular...