Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called S-100. The injection, which blocked the protein's activity, also caused the animals' learning rate to lessen markedly. Other findings tend to reinforce this conclusion. Protein-deficient rats learn much more slowly than well-fed animals. Also, protein-deficient children from poor families habitually trail better-fed, middle-class children in intellectual development, even when the children receive the same education...
...components of water. In other respects, Kohoutek's twin tails-one composed of dust particles, the other of glowing gases -seem to be developing normally. As the comet began its hairpin turn round the sun, the dust tail blown by the slight pressure of sunlight continued to trail behind. But the plasma tail, interacting with the solar wind, moved out in front...
...with his head, like a Polish Sherlock Holmes. In last week's episode, fragments from a dead man's glasses ultimately led him to the heart of a crooked urban-renewal scheme. This week he pieces together clues from a drug addict that set him on the trail of a fellow detective turned criminal...
...promised an appeal, argued that a verdict for Dunn would end criticism of local officials by newspapers. Ironically, one of the two reporters who wrote the offending story has since taken on national officials with impunity. Bob Woodward joined the Washington Post and, with Carl Bernstein, blazed an investigative trail through Watergate...
...forget the Jewish grandmother in Boudin. The second he opens his mouth he betrays his Brooklyn upbringing. If you catch him in a relaxed social setting you may run into a trail of babble which is not the least bit blemished by transitional ideas: "I got into this cab today, and the cab driver has a December 3rd Newsweek--that's all right but it would have been nicer if it were December 10...I read papers, magazines, deep books, anything I can get my hands on. (What deep books, Mr. Boudin?) Well, I never read a deep book...