Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heading the ball was the first thing my father taught me," Kydes explained. "I remember spending hours just heading a ball against any wall. I still make sure I head the ball for a short while in every practice...
...early 1950s, when Gell-Mann made his debut as a theoretical physicist, the discovery of a host of strange and short-lived bits of matter had turned the once orderly world of subatomic physics into what scientists called a "zoo." To bring some order out of the chaos, Gell-Mann-at the age of 24 -formulated his Theory of Strangeness (named after Francis Bacon's line: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion"). He assigned a value to each of the puzzling new particles: a "strangeness" number based on their peculiar rate...
There was even a short-lived UHF underground TV station in Ventura, near Los Angeles. It failed for lack of money but UHF holds the promise?or threat ?of providing inexpensive telecasting for a vast youth market...
Egeberg proposed a radical solution, involving nothing less than a change in prevailing attitudes about marriage and children. The notion that everyone should marry and raise a family was important in an era when infant-mortality rates were high and life expectancy short. Now it is important, he warned, to remove the stigma that society attaches to remaining unmarried and to somehow change the feelings of comfort and security that many Americans derive from having large families. "This is going to shock a lot of people," he conceded, "but we have to get the discussion started...
Read this series of short stories and cringe in terror as a rusty poker turns into a man, into a prince, into a male member, into a gnomic lusting man-beast, revealing the subconscious fantasies of two invented sisters...