Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accidentally, the officials involved misinformed the public. In California, San Quentin was quarantined while prison officials emerged periodically to present a string of stories and updates about how the six deaths had occurred. Similarly, New York officials changed stories with the impunity with which a snake sheds its skin. Alleging at first that the hostages who did not come out alive had been killed by inmates, the New York officials finally announced that all 40 of the deaths that day at Attica had resulted from gunfire by the invading forces of the state...
...doubles matches were full of errors," Evans said. "They should be ironed out during winter practice or the spring season. I thought we would really swamp them, but we only held on by the skin of our teeth," Evans said...
Recalls Penelope Gilliatt (hard g as in grin): "He sensed something perilous in the air even then." The hair and skin are the same hue that used to transport Titian, and she has never married a Hungarian of any kind. But as for the "something perilous"-well, Conner's trepidations were founded...
...been designed by Andrei N. Tupolev, 82, who also developed the Soviet Union's TU-144 supersonic transport. Aerodynamicists believe that the 131-ft.-long, 250,000-lb. Backfire is made of stainless steel with titanium to resist the heat stress of supersonic flight, and has an airframe skin bonding (instead of riveting). The plane's wings are in a forward position for long-range cruising and are jackknifed back about 40° for speeds of Mach 2.1 (about 1,400 m.p.h.) at 50,000 ft. or Mach 1 plus (760 m.p.h.) at 500 ft. Backfire is apparently...
...disease. Unlike X rays and gamma rays, heavy particles do not damage healthy tissue on their way to a tumor; they do most of their deadly work only after reaching it. (Before the modification of the Bevatron, heavy ions could not be accelerated enough even to penetrate the skin.) In addition, scientists may some day create stable, superheavy elements by bombarding uranium with heavy ions. To bring this goal closer, Berkeley is now developing its one-two punch, connecting the Bevatron with another atom smasher, the Heavy Ion Linear Accelerator, 550 ft. away, to achieve even higher energy levels...