Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throw his umbrella on the ground--handle pointing skywards--and writhe around it in a riotous, sensual dance. If you ask him where he learned to do that with his umbrella, he will say, "Man, they always done this at parades!" or "My daddy done that!" It is a remnant of some long-forgotten rite. An astute observer once described that scene as "some vanished ritual grandeur of humanity that has been lost in the stones, the jungle and the dust, yet lies only lightly sleeping in our blood...
...ready a device that might keep Karp alive for a week or two. It is about the same size as a natural heart and is made of Silastic (a silicone plastic), with Dacron cuffs for attachment to the "distributor cap," or blood-vessel connections, in the remnant of Karp's own heart. It is self-contained except for one essential ingredient: a power system to deliver a steady, pumping beat. This must come from an external console as big as a refrigerator standing at the bedside, to which the artificial heart is attached by two thin air hoses...
...beliefs of more experienced astronomers who were certain that the strange objects would be too small and distant to be seen through terrestrial telescopes. Undaunted, they pointed the 36-in. telescope at Arizona's Steward Observatory toward a small star in the Crab nebula, the glowing, cloudlike remnant of a supernova (stellar explosion) that was first witnessed from earth...
...first inkling that pulsars might not be reliable timepieces came after Cornell University astronomers at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, trained their 1,000-ft. radio telescope on a newly discovered pulsar in the Crab Nebula, the glowing remnant of a supernova-or stellar explosion-that was seen from earth in A.D. 1054. Unlike most other pulsars, which have relatively low repetition rates (between one and four per second), the new find was ticking about 30 times per second. Carefully measuring the pulse rate in October and then again in November, the astronomers found that it was slowing down by about...
...Oske hardly qualifies as a remnant of the Nazi judiciary that survived the war. His legal education came after the war, and he has established a reputation as a competent, calm and fair judge. Overwhelmed by the reaction to his decision, he suffered a nervous breakdown a few days later. Meanwhile, as 7,000 left-wing students demonstrated against the verdict on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm, Chief Federal Prosecutor Ludwig Martin let it be known that he would handle the appeal against the acquittal...