Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor Department: "No lost time injuries that do not result in a medical expense should not be reported to the OWCP." Those who believe that Babel can be located somewhere south of Sacramento have derived aid and discomfort from Richard Rosen's new volume, Psychobabble. On the downhill arc of the Me Decade, Rosen split an infinitive and savages cant as he collects "psychological patter, whose concern is to faithfully catalogue the ego's condition." Examples: "Very laid back," "I know where you're coming from" and "Go with the flow." Rosen was abetted by Novelist Cyra...
...giant air plane hangar in Mobile, Ala. Big Mama is a huge, circular construction, with narrow spires rising from the center and a hundred or so windows around the rim. The mother ship is supposed to land at night, and Trumbull placed 2,000 flood lights and six arc lights along its edge to create what he calls a "wall of light" and the illusion that the entire ship is whirring as it settles to the ground. "We did a lot of experimentation," he says. "But the result is really spectacular. The ship is a city...
...police had hoped to take their distinguished prisoner quietly to a government tourist house in the nearby state of Haryana. Mrs. Gandhi, who has often described herself as an Indian Joan of Arc, blocked their plans with dismaying ease. When the procession stopped at a railroad crossing, her lawyer pointed out to the police that she could not be taken outside the federal territory of Delhi without a special order. Mrs. Gandhi perched herself on a fence and vowed, "I'm sitting here until they show me the court order." Eventually, the police gave up and took...
...Joan of Arc--Caravan Theatre...
Earlier, as the Pontiff entered St. Peter's Basilica, borne on a swaying chair, a choir of 10,000 voices performed. TV arc lights played across the colors of African robes and Asian pantaloons in the packed congregation. Paul sought no assistance as he rose from the papal throne and lifted the host and chalice. But his hands trembled visibly and he walked to the altar with a slow, painful shuffle caused by his arthritis. To symbolize his years, Paul personally gave Communion to 80 people...