Patterson announced a definitive age for the Earth of 4,550 million years (plus or minus 70 million years), a figure that stands unchanged 50 years later, as McGrayne admiringly notes.
Many armed forces watched admiringly as American naval jets did the lion's share of bombing in the early months of war in Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 (and again in 2014).
He eyed me up and down" .What is a boy like you doing here at this time of the day looking for a Hazara" ? His glance lingered admiringly on my leather coat and my jeans--cowboy pants, we used to call them.