Word: trait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wick said that the first step is to identify a chemical trait unique to the cancerous cells such as the presence of L-dopa. Both melanoma and neuroblastoma are jet-black tumors due to the pigment-producing abilities of their host cells, he said...
...essence of the surrealist enterprise - like that of the 19th century romantics - was to open new channels for the creative mind. It produced, above all, an art of subject matter - a trait transmitted to its American offspring, abstract expressionism. "Beauty will be erotic-veiled, explosive-fixed, magic-circumstantial, or it will not be at all," ran Breton's famous description of the surrealist ideal. Much of the power of surrealist rhetoric does not survive translation: its use of blasphemy, for instance, and its passionate anticlericalism were authentically shocking within France's Catholic tradition, but resemble a charade when...
What can you write about a guy whose worst trait is that he is too nice a guy on the squash court? Grilling his competitors for some insights just hasn't worked--it would take the combined efforts of Kojak, Crocker and Stravos to dig up some dirt on squash captain Mark Panarese...
...infants, the mothers abandon their young. Though they could gang up on the male or refuse to copulate with him after infanticide, Hrdy notes, it is always in their individual self-interest to break ranks and accept him. Reason: their own male offspring will eventually benefit from the infanticidal trait...
...balefully at strangers and deliberately make mistakes when doing tricks with their trainers. Says he: "It's like a kid who slams the door, knowing that his mother will ask what's wrong and show him some sympathy." This watery form of anthropomania doubtless is an acquired trait, since in their natural habitat none of the mammals are aware of humans. Indeed, Trainer Tim Desmond suspects that his charges have come to love the roar of the crowds too much. With the park closed, he says, "I think they have become afraid that their livelihood is disappearing...