Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brightness of the new comet is 250 times dimmer than the dimmest object visible to the naked human eye. It has no tail, no central nucleus, and it is probably receding from the earth. But in the history of astronomy, it has a singular distinction: it was found by a 19-year-old lathe operator, chief support of a fatherless family, who made his own telescope...
...sunup one day last week, Secessionist Moise Tshombe slipped out of his pink palace in Elisabethville, climbed into the back seat of a black Comet sedan, and sped off down the road toward the Northern Rhodesian border. Soon an armored column of 500 United Nations troops was on his tail. For a moment, it looked as if the U.N. were in hot pursuit of its old foe. But no! To the astonishment of bug-eyed natives along the way, Moise was actually leading the blue helmets, urging his own tattered Katangese gendarmes to lay down their arms...
...overcoat by delicate chemical means) can produce most of the effects of the whole virus, but it is a thousand times less powerful. Evidently, the researchers suggest, the virus needs to be "carefully packaged for safe transmission." One effective package design is like a tadpole: the virus uses its tail as a stinger to pierce the cell and inject the nucleic acid. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute have just reported photographic evidence that this is the mode of attack used by a mouse leukemia virus...
...loss to Dartmouth, coupled with an earlier upset loss to sporadic Cornell, removed the Crimson from first place consideration. But it also put determination in the team and was the last Crimson defeat of the year. Harvard picked Penn, apart, player by player, playfully pulled the Tiger's tail, and rejected Brown's bid for an Ivy win to end what Yovicsin called the "first half of the season...
...What sort of smear is this?" gasped Nikita Khrushchev as he strolled past rows of abstract paintings in a Moscow art gallery last week. "You cannot figure out whether they were painted by human hands or daubed by a donkey's tail!" With these words, the Kremlin's ruler doused hopes of Soviet painters that a new liberal era of artistic freedom was under way in Russia...