Word: archaicism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have become known as "bennies," after a British TV character who is a decent, hard-working but thickheaded farmer. When military commanders reportedly banned the sobriquet, the troops quickly devised a new one: "stills," short for "still bennies." The natives, in turn, refer to the soldiers as "squaddies," an archaic British dig at military men of low rank...
...accounts are valuable in portraying the development of medicine throughout his career. Treatments administered when he had just left school seem archaic compared to the techniques he now uses at the Sloan-Kettering Center. That Thomas can write a book that simultaneously traces both his own life and the come of medicine underscores his important role in medical research over the past 50 years...
Though GM Chairman Roger Smith claims that the Toyota venture represents only a "temporary" solution, there was another sign last week that Detroit is leaving the manufacture of small cars to someone else. American Motors Corp. indicated that it may soon pull the plug on its archaic Spirit and Concord models. That will leave AMC with only the four-wheel-drive Eagle and the hot-selling Alliance, which was developed and financed by its French partner, Renault...
While Harvard's food options seem to be the most strict, they also would appear to be administered in the most archaic way. Harvard still employs checkers to log its diners, but several schools have begun to use computers to increase efficiency. Students at Brown use identification cards which a special computerized laser reads, displaying the number of meals remaining on the student's account each time...
...invited to make a sculpture for the Spoleto Festival in Italy. On going there he found, in the nearby town of Voltri, five deserted steel mills, littered with offcuts, sheets, bars and, best of all, a mass of abandoned tools, from calipers and wrynecked tongs to the ponderous, archaic-looking iron wagons and barrows used to run hot forgings from one part of the work floor to another. From these he made 27 sculptures in one month, and then had the leftovers shipped back to the U.S. to complete the Voltri-Bolton series...