Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conducts exhaustive quality-value reviews, reacting sometimes to customer complaints about socks that fall apart or water-softening systems that turn on when they are not supposed to. Sometimes tests are run for no particular reason and turn up problems. The test lab has just completed a review of eight pieces of Sears luggage, plus 20 more from competitors, including Samsonite and American Tourister. The luggage was frozen to 20° below zero and then dropped two feet. Result: one of the Sears bags was rated "below grade...
Today the man whom the Watergate grand jury branded forever as an "unindicted coconspirator" is rich, healthy and remarkably respectable. Apart from his $119,000 annual pensions and $300,000 in Government-paid expenses, his last TV interview cost CBS $500,000, and his last move from New York to New Jersey netted him a real-estate profit of more than $1.5 million. Though his wife Pat is in frail health after a second stroke last fall, Nixon is quite fit and chipper. Using a new Lanier word processor, he is tapping out his fifth post-White House book...
...Chinese, with the Chinese leading as they headed toward the high bar, their strongest apparatus, and the floor exercise. The teams set up side by side at one end of the arena, the Americans on the parallel bars, the Chinese on the high. Their scores flashed seconds apart in a tit-for-tat exchange of steadily mounting tension. Johnson opened with a 9.80 to Li Yuejiu's 9.90. Hartung countered with a 9.90, while the Chinese leveled off, unable to push their scores higher. Finally, Conner topped out with a 10; the U.S. team pulled ahead...
...Ronald Reagan, often. But so are laboratories full of more justly certified savants like Lord Kelvin, the respected British physicist ("X rays are a hoax," circa 1900), and Dr. Linard Williams, medical officer to the Insurance Institute of London, who said in 1932: "If your eyes are set wide apart you should be a vegetarian, because you inherit the digestive characteristics of bovine or equine ancestry...
...community will tear it apart," volunteered Mary Moore. "They know every word...