Word: spading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theater in which vignettes of Trotsky's career are staged against the moments leading up to the assassination. In England, a new version of that Communist calvary is being written by Novelist Nicholas Mosley, and Director Joseph Losey is filming Trotsky's last days. Richard Burton, in spade beard and granny glasses, is playing the lead...
...possess es the lust for survival of an amoeba. There will always be some, like that formidable adamant, Vladimir Nabokov, who believe that the pun is mightier than the word, that people who cannot play with words cannot properly work with them. "A man who could call a spade a spade," Oscar Wilde remarked, "should be compelled...
...first drummer we had was a spade who didn't get into country music, especially my song 'Family Bible.' He said that if we did that song once more he'd walk off stage. I grabbed the mike and said, 'Family Bible it is.' He left...
...Israel to help celebrate German Culture Week, West German Novelist Glinter Grass maintained his reputation for spade-calling by attacking the militant Jewish Defense League and the Betar organization for trying to disrupt the week's lectures, theatrical performances and concerts. This "irrational militancy" would be a serious problem for Israel, said Grass, if it were to be directed against the Arabs in Israel "with whom you are going to have to live." As for the idea that it is still too soon for the Israelis to get to know the Germans, he declared: "I don't want...
...cards are dealt one at a time, disregarding the order of the cards within the suits, the player encounters only one of four possibilities on each draw (a heart, diamond, spade or club); clearly, if DNA's code worked this way, there would not be enough choices to encode 20 amino acids. If the cards are dealt in pairs, the number of combinations increases to 16 (since each card may combine with its own kind or one of three other suits). But such a two-unit system also would be inadequate. So Gamow reasoned that DNA's four bases...