Word: tail-end
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McConnell and colleagues are now try ing to extract RNA and capture the flat-worm's tail-end chemical memory. They feel sure that if they succeed, some enterprising drug company will be able to synthesize the modified RNA. "If transfer of memory should be valid for man as well as worm," said Dr. McConnell as he indulged in a flight of fancy at a San Francisco conference, "why should we waste all the knowledge a distinguished professor has accumulated, simply be cause he's reached retirement...
...Psychiatry to Chopin. Abby rarely clucks at length over the details of dating and mating. When a theater cashier confided her secret passion for the married manager, Abby counseled: "Find another job. It's not worth being the tail-end of a double feature." A bachelor confided that he knew a sweet, demure girl who would make a wonderful wife, and another girl, "uninhibited, gay." who "comes up to my room." "How," he asked, "shall I discourage this girl?" Quipped Abby: "Which girl?" When a California husband complained that his wife, though "smoochable, affectionate and responsive" before marriage...
...United States. It was a rare day when some newspaper somewhere in the country did not carry a picture of the Senator in one of another of his expressionless poses. In 1955, McCarthy dropped off page one of the Times almost altogether, often to an uncomfortable position at the tail-end of a story on Senator Knowland or Vice-President Nixon...
...German bobsled team had everything worked out to a businesslike routine. At the starting bell, the driver had settled into place. The three other bobbers worked their sled back and forth along the ice to settle its runners into a groove. "Ein, swei, drei," they counted. Then the tail-end brakemen gave a great heave and grunted, "Auf geht's!" Pushing like mad, the bobbers galloped down the slick chute of the St. Moritz Bob-Bahn shouting, "Hoch, hoch, hoch!" Just before their sled hit the first curve they tumbled into their seats-off and running in the World...
Almost all of the 590 tickets were for Section 18, directly behind the goal post in the curve of the Stadium horseshoe. "It was definitely the tail-end of their allotment," Lunden said...