Word: unwindings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John son later reaffirmed his decision to retire from the decathlon. "Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for abou four hours and look at the moon," said Olympic Champion Johnson, "I don' know where-just walk, walk, walk. I've got to unwind. I'm through, man, I'n through...
...slid in. He has tumbled over the fence in Yankee Stadium while trying to get his glove on a home run. After a game, Maris, brooding over a Coke or a beer, is one of the last Yankees out of the dressing room, taking an hour or more to unwind...
...novel progresses. Morgan slowly comes to accept death, while Rebeck once again accepts the fact of life. The plot tends to unravel, rather than unwind, but even the spectral characters are vivid, and their collisions are often touching and funny-particularly when women are involved. Morgan entwines with a shade named Laura, who has left her body behind with relief, while Rebeck meets a sensible Brooklyn widow, who tries to lead him back to reality, if that's what Brooklyn can be called...
Back of the Moon is where the folks unwind...
...model of DNA's structure worked out by F. H. C. Crick of Cambridge University and J. D. Watson of Harvard, long strands of atoms are coiled together to make a spiral. Pairs of molecules called "nitrogen bases" connect the coils, which unwind in the process of duplication and assemble themselves on new strands. A series of experiments done a year ago at the California Institute of Technology, after which Sueoka patterned his experiments, supports this hypothesis...