Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came to the White House at the tail end of the effort to establish the special security unit [in July 1970]. They were fighting with [FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover...
...rendezvous with the sun. By December it will be the brightest object in the predawn sky, providing early risers with an unusual celestial display. The newly discovered comet may eventually be 50 times as brilliant as Halley's comet, which last dazzled the world in 1910; its tail could arc across some 30°-or one-sixth-of the evening sky. With no effort at hyperbole, Harvard Astronomer Fred Whipple says the onrushing giant "may well be the comet of the century...
...telescopes, solar radiation will boil off gases and dust from the nucleus as it approaches closer to the sun. In the "solar wind," the stream of electrically charged particles that continually emanate from the sun, the material from the nucleus should be swept into the characteristic comet's tail. As it reacts with the charged particles, the tail should begin to glow brightly-so brightly, in fact, that Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory believes that the comet could be visible to the naked eye in daylight just before its close approach to the sun in December...
...enjoys a nightmare situation," says a Dallas associate-and that is exactly what Perot has found on Wall Street. Though the stock market last week rebounded from a four-month tail spin, prices as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average have still fallen 15% from their mid-January peak...
Then pick the cat up by the tail, the bottle still clasped in its claws, and put it on the counter. Locals claim that the stunt works...