Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atom smasher will be situated just 17 miles from the AEC's sprawling Argonne National Laboratory and less than an hour's drive from Chicago, where Enrico Fermi first split the atom in 1942. In a sense, the AEC's plum has fallen near the tree...
...start Star, a biography of Gertrude Lawrence ("Their lives are somewhat similar," notes Director Robert Wise. "Gertie was also a product of music halls and a broken home"). She hopes one day to do a show with Mike Nichols; he wanted her for the Broadway lead in The Apple Tree, but signed Barbara Harris when Julie's film commitments obliged her to turn him down. It was probably just as well: Julie would have been hopelessly miscast in that show...
...receiver as far as 400 ft. away. Continental also offers a 4-in. dart transmitter that can be fired from a carbon-dioxide-powered dart gun into an area otherwise inaccessible to the bugger. Built to withstand the shock of impact, it will embed itself in a wall or tree, pick up nearby sound and radio it back over a range...
...teaching. "It is hard for people to find out that scientists are human because they teach only the public science, not the private kind of science that they spend their lives thinking about. We expect students to wrap themselves around a core of, say, physics like ivy around a tree. That's all right if students are already committed, but otherwise it won't work -- they're the wrong kind...
...challenges unique even in Viet Nam. The principal fact of the Delta is water, water everywhere: drowning the great, flat expanses of paddyfields that reach to the horizon, running in brown, lazy fingers through 2,500 miles of navigable canals, tributaries and the Mekong itself. Only long, lush tree lines and the populous villages they shelter break the landscape's monotony, and it is in the tree lines and villages that the Viet Cong are most often found...