Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good deal of archaic expertise is involved. As one Coast Guard cadet said, "You're up in the rigging in a storm, the sail's flapping in your face, it's pitch dark, and somebody yells to clear the foreroyal buntlines. You can't go look it up in your sailing manual...
...everything aboard the ship is archaic: on windless days, the steel-hulled Eagle, built in 1936, vibrates with the hum of her 728-h.p. diesel engine. Power winches, not able-bodied seamen, crank the windlass to hoist anchor. In the communications shack, the latest electronic gear helps plot the ship's position. On the foremast, a slowly rotating radar scanner keeps an electronic...
...drawn up a code of ethics intended to guide the multinationals in the conduct of their far-flung enterprises. To Americans, who are more familiar than most with the concepts behind antitrust law and the idea of corporate disclosure, parts of the code may seem elementary or oddly archaic. Yet in many areas of the world these concepts are little known. Hence, in a sense, the OECD code is an attempt to curb some of the abuses of the multinationals by encouraging the adoption of modern notions of proper business behavior in the less developed world, where most...
...given the abstruse and archaic state of medicine in France before the Revolution, Itard achieved a minor miracle in teaching Victor at all. The foremost doctors of the day were quick to declare Victor a congenital idiot and asked to banks him to the inhuman, rat-infested cubicles which served as the asylums of Paris. "He's not deaf and dumb because he was left in the forest, he was left in the forest because he was deaf and dumb," they said, and one rumor had Victor the illegitimate son of a provincial notaire who cast him into the woods...
...extremely influential in the development of one's personality. At the same time, however, he was fairly neurotic. Near the end of his life he began to believe that a spirit in his stomach was keeping him from eating, and he got thinner and thinner until finally his archaic doctors decided they had to bleed him. So where do they attach the leeches? To his nose, of course--he died insane, with leeches hanging off his nose. Kind of gruesome. Anyway, Diary of a Madman is adapted from one of his more famous stories, and will be performed at Sanders...