Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interest in the molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the kind of nucleic acid that controls the reproduction of most living cells. California's famed chemist, Nobelman Linus Pauling, had suggested that this monster molecule, containing hundreds of thousands, or even millions of atoms, might be built in a spiral. Crick, Watson and Wilkins were among the many scientists who eagerly tested Pauling's theory...
...mutual interest of the two neighbors. Ironically, the President made much last night of the clandestine nature of the Russian build-up. And yet it was the very severing of relations that made secrecy and suspicion the hallmark of U.S. Cuban dealings. Each step in the spiral of hostility has formed a template for its perpetuity. Now, with the introduction of nuclear weapons into the situation, all diplomatic forms and considerations are dropped, and Mr. Kennedy doesn't even try to interrupt the tragedy...
...amount of local advertising it now carries, unless a campaign can be devised to entice national advertisers. To date the HSA has shown itself incapable of devising such a campaign; it has simply increased the costs that must be shouldered by the already overburdened local market. This endless spiral of Calendar expansion must be stopped. Three rigid limitations must be imposed upon the Calendar: 1) No further increases in production costs should be allowed; 2) Absolutely no articles of a descriptive or critical nature are to be tolerated-the Calendar is not and should not be a magazine...
Inflation, always a bugaboo, is in a disastrous upward spiral. With export income and foreign investment at a standstill, governments are forced to borrow or print money to support domestic industries and put their growing populations to work. But the increased currency in circulation is not matched by an equivalent increase in goods for sale. Thus prices climb higher, and the cost of living rises far faster than the world average. In the past five years, the cost of living jumped 212% in Argentina, 158% in Bolivia. 146% in Brazil, 111% in Chile, 133% in Uruguay...
...raise $840,000 and used $280,000 of it to buy St. Donat's Castle, a magnificent edifice begun in the 12th century by a Norman nobleman and modernized by William Randolph Hearst when Hearst purchased it in the '20s. Now the ancient corridors and narrow stone spiral stair wells echo to the footfalls of 55 boys from twelve nations...