Word: specked
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...York City had been caught and beaten by an enraged mob. Said the Journal: "Authorities must recognize that their own failure to protect citizens itself breeds crime." The Boston Globe viewed "pistol- packin' Bernhard Goetz" with alarm: "With no psychiatric evaluation yet made, he may resemble Richard Speck more than Wyatt Earp...
...King says with a sigh, "when I was No. 1." They delight her even so, and she smiles as she observes, "When you're young, you think you're the center of the universe. When you're older, you realize you're just a little speck." Immediately following her worst defeat in 22 years at Centre Court, King acknowledged, "Yes, I took a last look over my shoulder-just in case." But she will probably return. "I'll be dreaming of winning Wimbledon when I'm 80." Evert Lloyd is sure to be back...
...appears. But during it one senses the interconnectedness of things, the flow and pulse of the collective subconscious--what in another age was called the "quick" of life. A transcendent moment like this reveals the order or chaos behind life; it generally makes one feel inconsequential, a minute speck in the cosmic scheme. This essentially romantic notion was perhaps best delineated by Emerson in his famous description of the transparent eye half, which because it sees all and through all in the natural world, is connected to everything in nature...
...hours later Frey points to a white speck in the sky, and I watch an Israeli pilot float gently to the ground. For a few minutes it looks as if he is going to land in the foothills, where he would be picked up by his own people. Then I see the pilot disappear into the city...
...outpouring of technology from Bell Labs seemingly knows no end. Now in the testing phase of development are tiny superconducting switches, smaller than a speck that can operate 100 times quicker than today's fastest transistors Scientists are also working on a new computer memory chip that can store 100 million bits of information (enough to hold the complete text of War and Peace) on a wafer an inch square...