Word: spiraling
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...University of California's Lick Observatory who mapped out the shapes of stars and galaxies; in Santa Cruz, Calif. A winner of such honors as the British Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal--almost never bestowed on an American--he determined that the Milky Way is shaped like a spiral and unearthed the processes that explain how the sun keeps its shape and size...
...Spirit of St. Louis landed there in 1927 on its triumphal tour. Some 50,000 people ... broke through police lines to rubberneck at the world's newest and biggest (71 tons), fanciest and fastest (up to 375 m.p.h.) commercial airliner ... At Chicago, crowds jostled for peeks at its spiral staircase and its underbelly cocktail lounge with fuchsia-colored seats ... Next week, wearing a crepe-paper lei on its shiny nose, it will take off for Honolulu." Read more at timearchive.com...
...sums to the tribes, the source says, for fear of fueling sectarian conflict. Saudi Arabia strongly opposes partition and would prefer to see a strong central government able to offer security to all Iraq's sectarian and ethnic groups. But, the Saudi expert says, "if things really continue to spiral out of control, as they are currently, and there is more and more concrete evidence of Iranian involvement with the Shia militias and with the continuous ethnic cleansing that is currently happening, adding to a potential announcement of a U.S. withdrawal, it will be very difficult for the kingdom...
...title mean and why is the pig-like, pearl-wearing matron on the cover leaping over a chair, flounced panties flying? And why is she so oddly menacing? If I were five, I’d be frightened. Ok, fine, I’m still frightened. And the mystery spiral on the back of the book, a wide-eye girl’s face half in the frame, terrified and staring, doesn’t help matters much...
...Leadership is not a line or trajectory, it’s a spiral staircase,” Lindsay N. Hyde ’04 told audience members at the Breakthrough Leadership conference hosted by the Women’s Leadership Network (WLN) on Saturday. The founder and executive director of the non-profit Strong Women, Strong Girls, Inc. (SWSG), Hyde delivered the keynote address at the event, which was aimed at helping women break through a “glass ceiling” limiting their leadership opportunities. Hyde spoke about her winding staircase to business success—she first...