Word: virgination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important of all, astronomers describe it as a "dirty" comet, one with an outer layer of dust that has probably never been stripped off by solar heating. That layer may prevent the comet from becoming as bright as originally predicted. But it also means that Kohoutek may be a "virgin," making its very first visit to the hot inner sanctum near the sun. That will give scientists an opportunity to study at close hand the structure of material that has never been heated, and thus is largely unchanged from its primordial state...
GUND HALL, Women in Love, Dec. 7 and 8 at 7:30 and 11, Dec. 9 at 9, The Virgin and the Gypsy...
...toggle switches. Overlaid on their basic gray-green, Boston beanpot color are gleaming red and blue zigzags, rows of tiny gold stars, and a gaudy, iridescent rainbow glaze. They have no discernible source of power and no visible moving parts, though at least one of them (The Rippe 1921 Virgin Gas Engine) is said to run on faith. The inventor, in a burst of Yankee practicality, foresaw the need for an alternative source of power. Another of the Rippe engines, the 911 pumper, was designed to enable water to run in whatever direction it wanted, including uphill. Nearly every piece...
...Michigan center, less than a dozen of 180 courses touch on contemporary conditions in any way. According to Maan Z. Medina, a Syrian professor of Arabic studies at Columbia, "there is no single study of Arab nationalism here. Arabic literature as such, especially in the modern period, is virgin territory...
Upon losing all his prey to the Virgin Mary, Satan, himself, (Frank Gerold) does an impressive backward flip and performs more phenomenal contortions. This dramatic use of his entire body, is absent in all but this final scene...