Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people of the Indus Valley could cast metals to make tools and ornaments-and keep written records. Small wonder that even centuries later, the peoples of the Middle East looked askance at the West. While their culture was flowering, Europe and the Americas were still in the Stone...
...back as the 1930s, Dr. Robert Stone of the University of California at Berkeley used neutron irradiation against cancer. But Stone's tests so severely damaged healthy tissue that the treatment was not revived until the 1960s at London's Hammersmith Hospital. The British physicians not only aimed the neutrons more precisely, but also adjusted the dosage so as to hold down immediate side effects...
Freshman Sarah Mleczko and Jenny Stone continued the racquetwomen's winning ways. Mleczko won a close match, 11-15, 15-11, 15-10, 18-15, and Stone beat her opponent...
...played much better Saturday than I've played all year," Stone said yesterday. Stone added that her strategy was to vary her shots, hitting corner shots to bring her foe to the front wall and then smashing shots close to the wall, driving her back...
...private services ever totally take over the business of correspondence, something will have been lost. Stamps, as this volume demonstrates, have often achieved a rare combination of function and beauty. David Lidman, a former stamps editor for the New York Times, offers a crisp history of franking, from ancient stone tablets to contemporary air mail. The 1,200 color illustrations convey a representative sampling of the good, the odd and the exceptional. Committed collectors may find nothing new here, but the book is ready-made for the Johnny-come-philately...