Word: unheard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coast, but by Italian, Norwegian and Lebanese rescuers, most of them volunteers. The searchers clambered over the ruins with picks and shovels, but just as often they would fall to their knees and scoop out debris with their hands. Orders, screamed out in any of several languages, often went unheard. At night the wreckage looked especially eerie as workers kept digging under the harsh glare of floodlights...
...Harvard seminar rooms. Forty-five years ago, a clique of young intellectuals, somewhat to the chagrin of the economics department, became the first Americans to teach the radical new subject. Within a decade many of the same men found themselves in heavy demand, as Washington espoused a then-unheard of degree of government intervention in the economy...
...even the normal part of the schedule is different than regular Law School procedure. The professors discuss each other's classes and sit in on each other's sessions--concepts unheard of at the Law School...
...that era's technology seems crude now, science was then, at least in some areas, in a similar state. Learned astronomers argued vociferously over whether our galaxy, the Milky Way, was alone or only one of many islands of stars. In medicine, the first sulfa drugs were unheard of. Physicists, having recently discovered that gravity could warp space and time, were now catching glimpses of an even wilder idea: that at its fundamental level, of atomic particles, the universe was governed entirely by chance. There was not a hint of the powerful forces these ideas would eventually unleash...
Using laboratory skills that were unheard of a generation ago, scientists have isolated, put together and manipulated genes, and have come close to creating life itself. In 1967 Stanford University's Arthur Kornberg synthesized in a test tube a single strand of DNA that was actually able to make a duplicate of itself. Kornberg's "creation" was only a copy of a virus, a coated bit of genetic material that occupies a twilight zone between the living and inanimate. But many scientists have become convinced that they may eventually be able to create functioning, living cells...