Word: wax
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...grandeur of its structure but in its details: Hungarian-born Physicist Leo Szilard stepping off a London curb in 1933 and being struck by the shattering inspiration of sustained chain reaction; Cambridge's Ernest Rutherford angling for the secrets of the universe with string and red sealing wax; Pierre Curie's hands, swollen by prolonged exposure to radium; the flat feet that kept Albert Einstein out of the army; Nobel Prizewinner Enrico Fermi arriving for an appointment at the U.S. Navy Department and overhearing the desk officer tell his admiral, "There's a wop outside"; F.D.R.'s 13-word handwritten...
...could philosophize about the Tasty, the ebb and flow of different types of people all caught up in the constant motion of time. I could wax eloquently about how the clamor of people crowded into this vintage 1950s diner mimicked the musical rhythms of "Classic Hits" WZLX...
More important, the very fact that these celebrations are exclusive makes them desirable. Everyone wants to be chosen by those who choose only few. Members of Harvard's exclusive Finals Clubs may wax eloquent about the wonders of pool tables and saunas; but, when it comes down to it, the allure of the clubs lies in the very fact that they are exclusive. Similarly, the "Harvard mystique" is less a result of Harvard's education than of the difficulty of getting...
...beach look leaves some veteran wave climbers bemused. Ed Hagan, 33, of Queens, N.Y., remembers how at the age of eight he transported his % surfboard on a converted shopping cart to Rockaway Beach. "All you ever needed was a board, trunks, wax and the urge to get wet." What? No multicolored zinc oxide...
...public threat to resign forced the Adminstration to back down from the testing plan, and the Secretary was hailed for his principled position. Even Anthony Lewis '48 of The New York Times, one of the most consistent and forceful foes of the foreign policy Shultz oversees, was moved to wax eloquent about Shultz' role in the affair. He called it "a reaffirmation of the role of personal character in public life...