Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lucky & the Duce. The Mafia's beginnings trace to the 11th century, when the conquering Norman Count Roger I swept in, parceled out the island's hilly uplands to his barons, who in turn enlisted the rowdiest ruffians around into gangs of guards. No one really knows what "Mafia" means, but by the last century all Sicily knew what the Mafia was: a randy band, held together by blood oaths and eerie ritual, whose product was "Protection" and whose sell was never soft. Farmers paid to have their cattle not killed or their wells not poisoned. Lovers paid...
...chunky high school dropout whose shirttail flaps in the breeze and whose hair-trigger temper has at one time or another 1) brought him an official reprimand from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association and 2) cost him a place on the U.S. Davis Cup team. Psychologists would probably trace Cliff's troubles back to his formative years-between twelve and 14-when he played with his sister and "she beat me every time." Says Cliff: "She used to beat me so often that she didn't even want to play me any more. It was the most frustrating...
Miss Sarozky has left little trace behind her at the Summer School. She was enrolled in Spanish SAab, was given privelege card number 2390, assigned to Straus A 42. Her proctor, Miss Asha Seth, said yesterday that she never met her and that her name vanished from the official student listing after July...
...want to track or trace you Or define you or confine...
Results of the collisions and near collisions are measured in the target buildings by giant spectrometers, or photographed in spark and bubble chambers, which trace the paths of atomic, and subatomic particles. Analysis of the results reveals the mass, charge and energy of particles produced by the interaction of electrons with the target; it gives scientists fresh insight into the structure of the atomic nucleus. It can also identify new and previously unsuspected subatomic particles...