Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laboratories can be designed to prevent the escape of potentially dangerous organisms. But there is always the chance that something or someone will fail-and that a few virulent bugs will slip through the safeguards to multiply in the outside world. Faced with this problem at the Asilomar conference. Geneticist Roy Curtiss III proposed an ingenious solution: Why not convert the standard genetic research organism, a strain of the E. coli bacterium, into a seriously weakened mutant variety that would quickly self-destruct if it escaped the laboratory? Curtiss volunteered to engineer the new bug, and his colleagues agreed...
Which is why--as we settled into a hedonistic slouch on Monday night to glutton ourselves with the faces of stars who were there, the cynical speculations about stars who weren't there, the silly name-pronouncing slip-ups, and the predictable choices--we couldn't quite figure out what was going on. The show seemed to be taking itself seriously: and we don't mean as entertainment, but as a self-consciously elitist and self-indulgent social event. The new generation of topical, issues-oriented liberals had arrived, and they seemed to be working out their liberal guilt...
...necessary to amend India's constitution-just in case Mrs. Gandhi might decide to push through an amendment, as she did last year, to increase her powers. Given her standing as a national figure and the entrenched position of the Congress Party, the odds are that she will slip through with a narrow victory. But opposition leaders now believe, with reason, that they just might be able to defeat the Congress Party for the first time in India's 30 years of independence...
...came close to letting her senior year slip by without hoop. The season was two weeks old before she came to a Crimson practice. At that point she was planning not to play. 'The past three years of basketball here had been such bad experiences for me," she said, "that I didn't want to continue the painful times...
...becomes a permanent fact about you, when really it's just momentary." All of this becomes heavy to carry around, and so does the slightly frowzy sexpot image evoked by a couple of injudicious photos, notably a rumpy shot in Rolling Stone of Linda in a wrinkled red slip. "So now everyone thinks I'm a piece of cheese," she says...