Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cadillac is an eminently sensible innovation: a "cornering light" mounted on the side of each front fender just to the rear of the headlight. When the driver flicks his turn indicator at night, the cornering light floods the area into which he is turning with a wide, low arc of light. Otherwise, like most 1962s, the new Cadillac is simply a sleeker version of the 1961 model...
...biting, the music called for an unerring sense of rhythm and pitch, and the Gregg Smith Singers responded on cue like a well-oiled machine. Conductor Smith had arranged his twelve male and 13 female singers cannily, spreading them across the entire width of the stage in an arc that gave breadth and transparency to the group sound. It was, said a delighted local critic, "perhaps the first thoroughly enjoyable evening of dodecaphonic music in the history of that difficult medium...
...very first orbit, Titov took over the manual controls of the Vostok II, checked out the systems designed to let him steady his capsule as it curved along its predetermined arc in space. On the third orbit, Titov ate a three-course lunch, squeezed out of tubes like toothpaste. On the seventh orbit, after 9¼ hours in the air, Titov passed over Moscow, radioed: "I beg to wish dear Muscovites good night. I am turning in now. You do as you please, but I am turning in." With that, Titov lay back for the programed 7½ hours...
...conditioned bowling alley. The sound of trumpets and drums seemed to fade into the summer heat. The 45-member band does not even have uniforms any more. The bandstand is long gone, and concerts are held in Themian Park, where facilities consist of folding chairs set under one dim arc of light. On a recent evening only 86 persons were moved to share the sentiments of a local farmer who stretched full length on the grass and sighed: "If there's any more restful way than this to spend an evening, I don't know what...
Psidium started dead last. But as the horses pounded through the tight arc of Tattenham Corner and into the stretch, Jockey Roger Poincelet, aboard Psidium, lazily swung his whip. The colt responded with an astonishing burst of speed that carried him into the lead and under the wire two lengths ahead of his closest pursuer...