Word: threads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until John Foster Dulles withdrew American aid, the project is being built largely by Russian engineers and money. When the $1 billion dam is completed in 1970, a 300-mile-long reservoir-dubbed Lake Nasser, of course -will add 2,000,000 green acres to Egypt's narrow thread of 6,000,000 acres of arable land. In a nation only a third larger than Texas and quite a bit bleaker, that is a considerable expansion, even if it will not by itself cure Egypt's terrible poverty. Egypt's 27 million inhabitants-twice as many...
...abundant Caribbean form, physalia, is rarely more than eight inches across its mauve, iridescent, jellylike body, but it has scores of tentacles up to 50 ft. or even 100 ft. long. These tentacles are like strings of microscopic beads, containing tiny poison cells consisting of a hollow, coiled thread with a barb...
Instant Poison. "When it is irritated," says the University of Miami's Zoologist Charles E. Lane, "the cell extends the hollow thread, and when the barb has penetrated the skin, it squeezes a tiny drop of poison the length of the tube." The instant a tentacle touches a bather, hundreds of cells go into action in a fraction of a second...
...brought into the scheme state factory executives from as far away as Leningrad and the Ukraine, and they shipped him 58 knitting machines-ostensibly for the rehabilitation of the mental patients. From a Moscow hosiery factory Businessman Roifman cadged a starting supply of 25 tons of waste thread; from collective sheep farms he found a way to import 50 tons of wool...
...Dreams may last a few minutes to an hour, but average 20 minutes. >Events in a dream happen about as fast as corresponding events in reality. > Occasionally a sleeper has a series of related dreams, like soap-opera installments, and sometimes a common thread runs through two or more dreams like a leitmotiv. >Outside events, such as the noise of opening and closing doors, are rarely incorporated in the dreamer's libretto...