Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plastics business -- "growing at a much faster rate than industry as a whole." Sitting through that discourse on the multifarious uses of polystyrene, I realized how Benjamin Braddock must have felt. He, at least, had had the good fortune of receiving his advice in a single word...
Bogovich's high school coach gave him the idea to apply to college, and, Bogovich says, "I figured I might as well try for the best." Harvard sent word that it would accept him if he spent a year brushing up on his English and arranged for him to be enrolled in Deerfield Academy for this purpose...
...three-letter combinations of nucleotides with particular amino acids. The task was also taken up independently by Khorana at the University of Wisconsin. Other scientists pitched in, and by 1965 the genetic code had been largely deciphered. Khorana was also able to determine that each of the three-letter words is always read separately and does not share any of its letters with another word. The words are read off continuously along a strand of DNA, much as a punched-tape message is read by a teletype machine. Among the 64 possible three-letter combinations of the four nucleotides...
...retreat, but the laboratory of a medical scientist. Two operating tables stand in the shadows, and on one of them lies a corpse. Stealthily, two grave robbers arrive with yet another body. As Faust takes the clammy wrist of the fresh cadaver in his hand and sings his first word, "Rien!" (Nothing), it becomes clear that Gounod's famous Faust has been given an eerie new look...
From the Greek. At Bootle, near Liverpool, Prime Minister Wilson opened a $37 million data-processing complex that is to be the heart of one of the most fully automated banking systems in the world. Called Giro-the word comes from the Greek gyros, meaning circle-the system will circulate funds within the country's huge post-office network. With a deposit of $12, anyone will be able to open a Giro account. An account holder can leave standing instructions to have his regular bills rent or mortgage installments, telephone and electric bills-paid automatically out of his account...