Word: corkscrew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scored a propaganda coup when his brother Sediqullah Rahi, 37, turned up in Washington to announce his defection and call his brother "mentally deranged." Though heavy combat has not touched the capital, Kabul, the sights and sounds of war intrude almost daily. At the airport planes follow a narrow corkscrew flight path down to the runway rather than risk flying in low over hostile territory. Day in and day out, the crump of outgoing artillery echoes through the city as government forces try to keep the mujahedin off balance...
...Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch is surprisingly subtle in this latest work. No sleeping women spout anger and green blood, no plagues of forgetfulness rain down upon forgotten towns. Furthermore, conversation with spirits is relatively nonexistent in Love in the Time of Cholera and babies with corkscrew tails are not to be found...
...Steere investigated a group of children, in and around Lyme, Conn., who were suffering from a mysterious form of arthritis. He traced the outbreak to speck-size ticks of the genus Ixodes, carried mainly by mice and deer. In 1982 federal researchers isolated the culprit from the tick: a corkscrew-shaped bacterium, or spirochete, similar to the one that causes syphilis...
...Italians, the meat or fish and the cheese we add are enrichment enough," Ronza says. "Spaghetti is still our No. 1 seller, but short pasta is becoming more popular. Some cooks still prefer to break long thick pasta such as ziti or the corkscrew fusilli into small pieces as they drop them into boiling salted water, but most people like them precut...
...locale and the corkscrew stance both prompt riddles. Egypt's Muhammad Neguib, 32, did not pick up his first discus until he was 25, a good ten years older than most trainees. This seventh of ten children had played a ferocious game of volleyball until a professor of physical education noticed that the young man had the body of a discus thrower: long arms and legs, bulk (286 Ibs.) and strength (a chest circumference of 51 in.). These raw materials remain uncoached; Egypt, which has not had an Olympic medalist since 1960, spends little on developing its amateur athletes. Says...