Word: airtight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LBNP looks like an oil drum and can be fastened tightly at the waist. Made of rubberized, aluminum-lined canvas, it creates an airtight bag for the body's bottom half. Air is pumped out to create a partial vacuum. Since cabin air pressure is therefore greater on the body's upper half, some blood is forced into the lower part-approximating the effect of gravity-and the heart must make an earthlike extra effort to keep blood moving down below...
Although = Though. A persuasive case could probably be argued against the need for any guidebooks to good usage, but an airtight case could surely be marshaled against windy ones. William Strunk Jr.'s succinct Elements of Style (71 pages; TIME, July 13, 1959) does not waste time, for example, on the nonexistent difference between although and though; Modern American Usage squanders 750 words on the subject, concludes: "There is not much to be lost by treating the two words as interchangeable and not much to be gained by attempts to differentiate them...
...that, the Warren Commission was neither perfect in its procedure nor airtight in its presentation of evidence. There is some justice to the critics' contentions that staff lawyers felt rushed, that there were intense deadline pressures and that every loose-end lead was not neatly tied up. The commission might have prevented some of the current criticism if it had appointed a kind of devil's advocate to challenge evidence aggressively on behalf of the assassin. Many of the complaints against it, of course, concern the inevitable flaws that accompany any juridical proceeding: contradictions, loopholes, gaps of fact...
...insult to injury, France insists on physical possession of most of its gold. Other nations are content to leave most of their holdings in the New York Federal Reserve Bank's airtight vault 85 ft. below Liberty Street in lower Manhattan. There, gold ingots worth about $12.9 billion are stored-as against the $10.1 billion worth residing in the famed U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox...
...rare old felon in the very first scene. The night is dark; Frobe approaches a woman seated alone on a bus at a rest stop somewhere between Nice and Grasse, drags her into a small park and stabs her. The victim is his wife, and Frobe has such an airtight alibi that the murder case would be swiftly closed except for a rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide for its instructional value. Caught between a neurotic wife who won't give him a pleasant word or a divorce and a delectable mistress (Marina Vlady...