Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates voted to use some of the Government's $1,104,000 in conference expense funds to send telegrams of endorsement to the nonviolent groups sponsoring last weekend's antiwar protests. Further bucking Administration policies, various task forces urged a complete end to strip mining, the immediate resignation of J. Edgar Hoover, and amnesty for all draft violators...
These are late-blooming qualities in Daniel. The only son of a South Carolina strip miner, Daniel grew up in Orange, Va. He slipped and slid through four years as a geography major at the University of Virginia. "My grades," he remarked, "were all over the place." His academic performance was so uneven that he was not accepted at the University of Virginia law school. The University of Richmond's law school took him, though, and Daniel buckled down. He became an associate editor of the law review and wound up in the top 10% of his class. After...
...Then in the early 1960s, biologists discovered a third kind of RNA?shortly after its existence had been theorized by Jacques Monod and François Jacob of France's Pasteur Institute. Called messenger RNA, it provided the missing piece in the molecular puzzle. It was formed on an uncoiled strip of DNA in the nucleus, imprinted with the particular "message" encoded in that portion?or gene?of the staircase, and then sent off with these instructions to the protein-making ribosomes...
...coal men argue that Washington could profitably divert much of the money that it spends on nuclear-power research to study ways to take the sulfur out of coal smoke. But even if coal could be cleaned up, the cheapest method of digging it out of the earth is strip mining, which turns large expanses of natural beauty into scenes of lunar desolation. Gasifying coal underground so that it can be moved easily by pipeline offers one way to make fuller use of the nation's resources; the feat is technically possible, though at present it is expensive...
Ashen, Calley marched off to the Fort Benning stockade. The next afternoon he was back before the court-martial to make a final statement before sentencing. Choking back tears, occasionally gasping for breath, Calley spoke first strongly, then in a breaking voice. "Yesterday you stripped me of all my honor. Please, by your actions that you take here today, don't strip future soldiers of their honor." Captain Aubrey M. Daniel III, 29, Calley's brilliant, tenacious prosecutor, followed. "You did not strip him of his honor," Daniel told the jury. "What he did stripped him of his honor...