Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning, according to Wilber, was the archaic stage of consciousness, the first stage that could be called human. Wilber uses the image of the uroboros--the serpent devouring its own tail--to illustrate this stage's total self-absorption. The dichotomies of Subject and Object, and Self and World had not yet been made. This stage is similar to Piager's description of the early stages of an infant's cognitive development...
...time is a little deceptive. There was a nice tail-wind, the course [usually 2000 meters] was a little short, and we got a floating start," Captain Ethan Goldings said yesterday, adding. "There was a little flailing out there. We needed a long warm-up to remember how to row because we've been in the [indoor] tanks for while...
After tearing apart the junior varsity pitching his freshman year and sitting on the bench for all but the tail-end of his sophomore season. Chicarello burst into the headlines with a truly incredible performance in the Crimson's three-way playoff against Yale and Cornell two years...
...grow 16% annually through 1987, vs. a 14% rate of increase during the peak Viet Nam War years. Injecting all those dollars into defense-related industries could wind up being like installing a turbocharger on the engine of a Model T. Since military spending increases first began to tail off in the 1970s, the industry's infrastructure has seriously eroded. Hundreds of small foundries that made vital metal castings have gone bankrupt or have been forced to close by the Environmental Protection Agency (for excessive dust, smoke and chemical byproducts). Traditional smokestack industries such as steel and rubber have...
...brought along a beautiful Adams House sophomore who was working as an intern at the local public television station. "What an interesting restaurant," she said as we walked in, picking up the tail end of the morning's boxing seminar. I smiled and bid the counterman to throw the brisket on the slicer...