Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like chamber, converting them to ions. Expelled at high speeds in a focused beam, the charged particles act like a rocket exhaust, propelling the craft forward. Though its thrust is minuscule and far too feeble to lift payloads from the earth, the ion engine performs efficiently in the vacuum of space. It can function for years because it draws on solar energy and uses fuel sparingly. It can be stopped and restarted countless times and accelerate spacecraft to extremely high speeds...
...indistinguishable-we come away with a memory of one or two good jokes, but people don't remember Woody Allen jokes. Because Monty Python, like anything surrealistic, depends on the realism it parodies; it takes not of the world outside and (ab)uses it. Whereas Woody operates in a vacuum, surrounding himself with flimsy satirical types who recur in each film he makes, and his humor vanishes once his personality isn't on screen...
...leadership vacuum, however, may increase the responsiveness of the traditionally elite dominated Japanese political system. Without a LDP will have to bow to the pressure of opposition parties and local consumer group movements who have sharply criticized the party's emphasis on or environmental integrity. Opposition parties are already clamoring for the abolition of some of the tax breaks the LDP has granted big business...
...Harvard band added further insult--"sieve, sieve, funnel, funnel, vacuum cleaner" at Davidner and various suggestions for the Northeastern cheerleaders--two Crimson leftwingers put on the evening's finishing touches. First, Jim Turner flipped a low one by Davidner at 12:48 with Harvard a man up, and Rick Benson capped a one-man rush with a successful wrister with...
...Soviets. Approval of SALT, he declared, would "guarantee to the Soviet Union the margin for error that used to be ours." He said the nation must have a President who will "face up to the realities of a Soviet foreign policy that probes every weakness and fills every vacuum...