Word: unfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncertainties in the historic impeachment inquiry now under way in the Congress are astronomical. But impeachment sentiment is rising, and a trial of the President in the Senate is increasingly probable. Senators and Representatives are trying to determine how and when these momentous events will unfold...
...council last night also passed Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci's motion ordering the C.E. Maguire Inc., consultants for the Kennedy Library project, to appear at a public hearing "to unfold all the information about the library...
Though Life is rewarding enough when played manually, it takes on an added dimension when played on the computer, which causes the varied patterns to unfold much more rapidly. The computer can either place the counters at random or follow the operator's placement instructions. Readily programmed to obey Life's rules, it can then perform the necessary calculations in a flash and display the changing patterns on a cathode ray tube, providing a remarkable kaleidoscopic show. Sometimes the counters quickly settle into what Conway calls "still lifes" - stable, unchanging figures, including those known in the game...
Wilson's imagination is hallucinatory, evoking the visions of drug takers. It is also surreal. If Dali had not thought of a melting watch, Wilson could have. Stalin does not unfold through logic, but through phantasmagorical sequences, as if dancers were paradoxically miming still lifes...
Once more a presidential counterattack on Watergate was under way. For no less than the 13th time since the scandal began to unfold eight months ago, Richard Nixon vowed to disclose all of the facts and put the sorry affair to rest. After a blitz of nine White House meetings and two public appearances, he had shed little new light on the controversy. But he had emerged, however belatedly, out of isolation and boldly entered the public arena, where the fate of his presidency will be determined...