Word: thousanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thousand people fled the city in the last couple of years...
...author remembers. "The diary of Anne Frank was about as far as anyone wanted to venture into the dark." Night, finally published in the U.S. in 1960, drew them far deeper, into an abyss that was appalling to contemplate and impossible to ignore. It was as if a thousand tongues had suddenly become unstuck...
...Quenelux held sway, Arthur Dent awoke one morning in his modest home west of London to learn from a visiting extraterrestrial that the earth was about to be demolished. It had to make way for a hyperspace bypass. What happened next is too horrible to recount, but several hundred thousand inhabitants of the planet earth are familiar with the tale. That is a conservative estimate of the audience for Douglas Adams' 1979 luna tic masterpiece, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1980 sequel, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and a 1982 sequel, Life, the Universe...
...Meteorologist Robert Wilhelmson hopes to simulate the birth of a tornado. Hidenori Murakami, a structural engineer at UCSD, aims to predict the effects of earthquakes on skyscrapers, bridges and other structures. And at Cornell, researchers working under Wilson want to use their new machine to design a supercomputer a thousand times more powerful than the one they are about to receive...
...with garish black and yellow stripes. Piles of makeup, spiky hair and enough dangling chains to tie up half the elephants in Africa complete the picture of the up-to-date heavy-metal rock group. Even the music, the sound of a swarm of angry insects electronically amplified several thousand times, fits the image. But wait; don't walk away without listening to the words of their song...