Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Before anyone jumps to conclusions, there is probably an innocent explanation for the fact that Stanley Pons has dropped out of sight, hiding his whereabouts from the press and his employers. Granted, the University of Utah chemist has been under pressure since March 1989, when he and British colleague Martin Fleischmann said they had created fusion in a jar. Skeptical scientists doubted that the pair had tamed the sun's power source -- at room temperature. The complaint was not just that they had announced their discovery at a press conference rather than in a scientific journal but also that...
...pitiful sight seeing tenured Harvard professors fearful of the effect on their reputations were they to sponsor AALARM. This trepidation outweighted their devotion to their sacred charge of advancing the free exchange of ideas...
...Owing to an administrative over-sight, the Institute for Contemporary Arts in Boston was not notified," the NEA said. "The Art Endowment deeply regrets the error. It always is our intention to notify rejected grantees as soon as possible so that they can go on with their business...
...good year for the Mexican poet and critic Octavio Paz. Last spring, to celebrate his 76th birthday, Mexico City's Cultural Center of Contemporary Art staged an exhibition ranging from pre-Columbian artifacts to modern paintings and called the show "Octavio Paz: The Privileges of Sight." Last week the Swedish Academy selected him for a privilege he had reason to believe was out of sight...
Within minutes, the police called in a riot squad who brutally beat everyone in sight, including me. The riot police hit me on the back of the neck with the butt of a tear-gas gun. They hit me on the ear with riot sticks swung like baseball bats. They kicked me repeatedly in the ribs...