Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proteins in Hall's brain were changing, however. Ordinarily made up of tiny strands of intertwined amino acids, the complex molecules had begun to assume a very different shape, collapsing into sticky sheets. Before long, these gummy structures began to clump sloppily together, creating pits and divots where there had once been vital brain tissue. Within months Hall was delusional and bedridden. Not long after, he was dead...
...imagers considered invoking not just the new century but the entire new millennium. They rejected the idea as being "too grandiose, too out-of-scale." Presidents, they reasoned, can try to shape decades. To aspire to shape a millennium sounds like overreaching...
...were popularized by the introduction of chromate and cadmium pigments, a development that greatly affected the painting of J.M.W. Turner. Likewise, the Impressionists made generous use of the new blues and greens that emerged in their day. In this century, novelty gave way to marketing as manufacturers came to shape public tastes in color. In 1934, for instance, the American Tobacco Co. found that women wouldn't buy Lucky Strikes because the then green box clashed with their clothes. The solution: make green hot. In short order, the company set up a "color-fashion bureau," underwrote a green-themed society...
...think this game was huge," Higdon said. "Instead of being two games below .500, now we are .500 and we have two more games before break. We get two wins there and then we're in great shape...
...Yale's offense takes the shape of Air Siedlecki, gridiron fans can be sure that Murphy's steel curtain will thwart any attacks...