Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threatening to rise higher. In both cases, behind the sadness of immediate events was a niggling sense of disillusion with U.S. engineering know-how: Glen Canyon Dam is only 20 years old, the Mianus River Bridge just 25. By contrast, the Brooklyn Bridge, a full century old and solid, was celebrated in May with the best fireworks show of the year...
...ICBM was propelled out of a canister by a burst of steam. Then a solid-fuel engine kicked in, and the missile began its 4,100-mile flight from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. In 30 minutes, its six dummy warheads splashed down where they were aimed in the South Pacific, near Kwajalein atoll. The target was apt: in the same Marshall Islands chain is Bikini atoll, site of the first peacetime atomic blast 36 years ago next week...
...first official visit to the U.S., he will inevitably reflect the buoyant national mood. For Spaniards, González is, above all, living proof that after only five years of self-conscious democracy, Spain can elect a Socialist government without a national upheaval or a military coup. Holding a solid majority in both houses of the Cortes, the Socialists have moreover steered a reassuringly moderate course in economic policy. Separatist Basque terrorism remains a serious problem but appears to be on the decline...
...Ecole Normale des Instituteurs de Paris, a public primary school: children in one second-level class are made to sit up straight and arduously copy lessons from the blackboard; in another, they are allowed to mill around the classroom and speak more freely. But virtually all emerge with a solid foundation in the basics...
...scholarship to Westlake, a girls' private school in Los Angeles. There, largely through the inspiration of a physiology teacher from U.C.L.A., she caught the science bug; she pursued that interest in college, first at Swarthmore, then at Stanford, to which she switched in her sophomore year. After two solid years of science and math, she turned to the humanities ("I needed a break from the equations") and fell in love with Shakespeare. In 1973 she graduated with a B.S. in physics and a B. A. in English...