Word: spins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...racks are full of familiar visages, the icons of one's childhood, Mickey and Pluto and the others blown up to preternatural size, then guillotined; their eyes goggle from the shelves like big affable poached eggs. There is even a set of coolant waistcoats, their design a spin-off from NASA; they circulate a chemical refrigerant round the body. In this humid and swampy acreage of Florida, every hot duck on Main Street contains a hotter man wildly signaling...
Solar Cycle. Other earthlings aboard Skylab did not fare as well. The spider Arabella, which became famous by demonstrating that it could spin a web in zero G, survived the return to earth. But its arachnid companion Anita died before the end of the mission, apparently of starvation; Anita stubbornly refused to eat the morsels of filet mignon that were offered. Other casualties were the two minnows that had been carried aboard Skylab. However, their offspring - the first earth creatures to be born in space (except, perhaps, for some offspring of stowaway bacteria on earlier nights) - made it safely...
...bitter competition which has accompanied the rise of egalitarian meritocracy has claimed many Harvard casualties, Riesman said. "The spin Harvard puts on those it validates is terrific, but the price is the casualties of the competitive process," he added. Riesman acknowledges a conflict between the admissions process valuing non-academic strengths, and the objective criteria holding sway in the contemporary Harvard environment...
...Gainesville Eight thus joined the Chicago Seven, the Camden 28, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Angela Davis, and several Black Panther groups who have beaten conspiracy indictments. There are no other major conspiracy trials pending at present. Conspiracy seems to spin in other directions these days, and the Justice Department has its hands full. It may well decide to pursue the prosecution of radicals less frequently in the future...
...sense of omnipotence. Kennedy's spirits visibly lifted when he got on his magic carpet. Lyndon Johnson's facial coloring improved as he swept skyward in his mad dashes round the world. Even when Nixon is earthbound in California, he often sets out for a spin along the roaring California freeways. The amateur psychologists who travel with Nixon insist that in part he is running from his problems, seeking some magical vista where solutions will appear. They never...