Word: strung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twentieth century geneticists gradually evolved the theory that whether an organism is to be microbe, mouse or man, its biochemical functions are determined by genes strung together to form chromosomes. Each gene is believed to be a submicroscopic but still "giant" molecule of a nucleic acid, usu ally deoxyribonucleic acid (DNAJ, but in some viruses ribonucleic acid (RNA) Each gene, the theory held, directly controls the cells' production of some one specific chemical-in most cases an enzyme, one of the body's countless catalysts that are essential to nearly all its functions...
...sound." On tour he travels with his own Steinway ("Can you imagine Oistrakh playing with Stern's violin?") and personal piano tuner, 71-year-old Cesare Augustus Tallone. With a surgeon's knowledge of the piano's inner workings, Michelangeli treats his Steinway like a high-strung child, recently relinquished it to be overhauled, explaining: "It's still too young and hasn't been broken in yet." For the Paris concert, Tallone scoured the city for days to find a substitute piano, then spent 20 hours preparing it for the master's hands...
...track, coasted home a comfortable 31 sec. in front. At Spa last month, thunderstorms made the trip a little dicier than Jim expected ("It was damn dangerous out there"), but he still scored his fourth-straight victory in the Belgian Grand Prix and left the rest of the field strung out 1½ miles behind...
...ability to go into debt has launched many new nations, and preserved or vastly changed old ones. A postwar proliferation of international credit agencies-notably the World Bank - has provided 51% credit that has strung railroads through jungles in Colombia, built highways in Ethiopia, and industrialized Italy's Mezzogiorno. Some countries have borrowed too enthusiastically. Overwhelming debts have brought inflation and economic chaos to Indonesia, Argentina, Ghana and other extravagant governments, which perhaps will never be able...
...sight. On his devious journey to guerrilla headquarters, Okamura was escorted at a killing pace through the jungle by a 73-year-old woman guide, then was taken in hand by a Viet Cong commissar who wore a cowboy hat, an orange shirt, and had a police whistle strung round his neck...