Word: weres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In one column, Buchwald squelched rumors that Vice President Agnew was planning to dump Richard Nixon in 1972. "A spokesman for the Vice President," he wrote, "told me that Mr. Agnew was very satisfied with the job his President was doing and that he even intended to give him more...
The Knicks' convincing victory over last year's champions clearly indicated that basketball's old order is changing. Besides Reed, the New Yorkers boast a brilliant assortment of speedy ball handlers and hawks: Bill Bradley, Cazzie Russell, Dick Barnett and Walt Frazier. The team also gained additional...
Using the humble pea, an obscure Austrian monk named Gregor Johann Mendel proved that living things pass their characteristics to later generations with mathematical regularity-almost as if the formula for each trait were conveyed in a separate little package. Last week, more than a century later, a team of...
Stray Tails. Therein lies the key to the elegant experiment reported last week in Nature. Once the two strains of virus had finished raiding the bacteria, the experimenters dissolved their protein sheaths, exposing their raw DNA molecules (Step 1 in diagram). Next, the scientists heated the dissimilar DNA molecules, causing...
Janáček was fascinated by the melodic curves of speech. He would eavesdrop on conversations in the street, jotting down musical notations of individual speech patterns. He claimed to have recorded 60 distinct ways in which the word yes could be pronounced. He was also fascinated by bird...