Word: advent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...field, which was as slick as silly putty, proved likewise for both squads, and probably did as much to contain Restic's new improved multi-flex, with the big addition Saturday being the advent of three men in simultaneous motion, as the Lion's defense...
...many Washington reporters were charmed by him and wanted to bask in Camelot favors. Yet whether their failure to report his hyperactive sex life was a coverup, as Lasky charges, is doubtful. Rightly or wrongly, the sexual excesses of politicians had not been seen as newsworthy until the advent of post-Watergate morality. It was hardly a partisan matter; widely rumored dalliances by F.D.R. and Ike went unreported too at the time. The bedtime habits of a President, moreover, are scarcely on a par with the Watergate-related crimes of the Nixon White House...
...Atlanta, is a return to the pre-DDT approaches: draining mosquito-breeding areas and monitoring water supplies. In addition, several drugs can be used both to prevent and to treat human malarial infections. Says Kaiser: "We are going back to the basic malariology abandoned in the 1950s with the advent of the broad-brush chemical approach." The great hope, he says, is for an antimalarial vaccine. But that, he concedes, is at least a decade away...
...term contracts to supply utilities with "yellowcake" at fixed prices of $8 to $12 a pound, claiming that it would be ruined if it followed through. Now, utilities in the U.S. and elsewhere are delighted to have a new source of supply. On a loftier plane, Fraser said, "The advent of Australia as a major supplier of uranium will make certain that Australia's voice on this most vital problem of international affairs -nuclear weapons proliferation-will be heard...
...there is literally a war going on between Jews and missionary groups [July 4]. Although it has only recently hit the headlines, this phenomenon is nothing new; the Jewish people have been the focus of persistent attempts at conversion ever since the advent of Christianity...