Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Predictably, there are occasional grumblings about the blossoming foreign presence. Southern Florida has long had a large Cuban population, but more recent arrivals include tens of thousands of French Canadian small businessmen and their families, who have fled Quebec out of fear that it may secede from Canada and pitch...
The construction details of the "neut" remain a guarded secret, but the principles are well known to physicists. Neutron bombs are essentially small thermonuclear devices, or H-bombs, the explosive equivalent of about 1,000 tons of TNT. Unlike the earliest A-bombs, which involved the fission-or splitting-of...
Out of that chance discovery 17 years ago has emerged a new and highly controversial treatment for helping flawed vision. It is called "orthokeratology." In myopia, images of the outside world do not focus precisely on the retina but rather in front of it, either because the eyeball is too...
As the wary welcome continued, Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance listened impassively. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski clutched a notebook tightly. Carter sympathetically cited "the recent cowardly and unjustified attack by terrorists on innocent civilians in Israel," but he quickly added a corrective hint that...
Outside the city, at key junctions, was a second concentric ring of roadblocks manned by police and thousands of soldiers called in from around the country. Some ten miles farther, the third and outermost ring of roadblocks was set up. As drivers discovered to their discomfort, police stopped cars and...