Word: webbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extinct dodo as SAFE'S emblem, and sports a button reading "Dodo Power," in the hope of dramatizing the urgency of the situation: the flightless bird was extinct only 186 years after Europeans landed on its home island of Mauritius. "The dodo was part of a delicate spider web that connects us all," says Durrell. "Every time you muck about with that web, it sends tremors all the way through...
...told of the situation in 1940 when he was ushered out of his position as an economics instructor. "The Economics Department never did me a greater favor," he said. Daniel Ellsberg '52, speaking in Lowell Lecture Hall in 1972, warned students to stay out of the "center of the web," noting that Harvard graduates had almost singlehandedly engineered a decade of death and destruction in Indochina...
...Eastern swimming and then, seeing the restrictions, the limitations, the frustrations of coaching with a limited budget and restricted recruiting powers, who saw than even with the lure of Cambridge and John Kenneth Galbraith he could only entice a limited number of stellar swimmers into the Cambridge-Harvard web, who realized reluctantly but perceptively nonetheless, in two years where others had taken more, that he could never rise above seventh or eight in national swimming ranks if he maintained his Cambridge residence, who foresaw that the prospects for a new and dynamic East Coast swimming program featuring his stocky shoulders...
...never know until we get the darn things down and look at them." There was one performance that no one could fault: a spider named Arabella, on board Skylab for a biological experiment, accommodated to space flight within only a day or two, learning to spin her complex geometric web in zero-G after only a few false starts. Said Garriott with a touch of envy: "She is a very fast learner indeed...
...contribute to international understanding by constructing global telephone links. Central to ITT's European operations was a German holding company established in 1930. It was inevitable that Behn would have to do business with Hitler. "In trying to hold his system together," writes Sampson, "Behn gradually wove a web of corruption and compromise which left the idealism in ruins." From documents he found in U.S. archives, Sampson concludes that Behn cooperated willingly with the Nazis, choosing not to repatriate his German profits and agreeing to his German subsidiary's purchase of an interest in Focke-Wulf, the aircraft...