Word: vortexes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regionally, southern California is at the vortex it seems of America's hate-speech induced violence, one instance of which occurred in 1989 outside a supermarket in La Verne. Four skinheads attacked an Iranian couple and their week-old infant, whom they assumed were Jews. Another incident in 1991 in Fullerton involved a skin head gang assaulting a Chinese-American student and two of his White friends...
...gluing on wildly colored pieces of leather and rubber, supposedly of different density and (nifty gear wording here) torsional rigidity, so the shoe looks like a machine. Prince, the firm that in 1976 invented the big, fat tennis racquet for big, fat weekend players, brought out a big-head "Vortex" racquet three years ago. It was the latest in a triumphant evolution of big racquets made of ever more exotic materials, including graphite and boron, and similar alarming materials. The Vortex was made of, let's see, "visco-elastic polymer." Which, of course, was what they made the skin...
That was great, but that was then. The Vortex is all but history. And the aerospace industry, beset by peace and recession, has not brought out any dark-of-the-moon materials in the last couple of years. High-impact modulus- polymer-visco-graphite is just as good as it ever was, but the new has worn off. This year's Prince entry in the country-club weapons race is called the Extender. Made of graphite and liquid crystal polymer, the Extender is bigger than the usual big-head (116 sq. in. vs. 110), and its oval shape is supposed...
...turbulent years in the political vortex, she got scant credit for her lasting contributions as First Lady, or even for being a real person behind the tautly composed image. Mostly forgotten is her expansion of the role of First Lady as foreign emissary, on her own. She loved traveling and blossomed visibly in direct ratio to the distance between her mission and the inhibitions imposed on her at home. In 1970 she warmed the frost between the U.S. and Peru when she traveled to towns destroyed by earthquakes, delivering aid and personal comfort to survivors. In West Africa...
...Chayes says Harvard's environs have always been a "boiling vortex of activity, with young people predominant...