Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long worried over the mounting number of weapons being brought into airports. In 1972, 1,313 firearms, mainly handguns, were confiscated. Last year that figure jumped to about 5,200. Thirteen explosive devices were found at airports in 1972; in 1975, 156 were discovered. In addition, a sinister array of knives, brass knuckles and clubs were found either on individuals or hidden in luggage, washrooms and potted plants...
...addition, a bewildering array of other government awards was distributed last year. Medals of Meritorious Work were handed out to 200,000 people who have been employed for 25 years at no more than two different private companies. Those who stayed home to stem the decline of France's birth rate were not forgotten. Mothers of five legitimate children received the Bronze ATCH Medal of the French Family. Criteria for winning this award were somewhat less severe for mothers who received gold medals for producing ten children for France, with no questions asked about the fathers...
...Rines' most consuming interests has been the Loch Ness Monster. In 1972 he set up an array of underwater cameras in the loch and obtained a picture that showed a large mass with what some experts identified as a flipper-like appendage. Last summer Rines' cameras took thousands more shots beneath the murky loch's surface and produced two more photographic equivalents of a Rorschach test...
...contends that the nation should develop "an array of target unemployment rates for different segments of the labor force." Unfortunately, much more analytical work will have to be done before economists or Government officials can decide with any assurance what would be realistic, achievable target employment rates for, say, blacks, women and teenagers...
Rembrandts in the collection), beginning to array his whole cast of characters by the river bank, setting them down in the hooked squiggles and blots of a reed pen - pure calligraphy, astounding in its vigor. Here is Watteau, constructing with red and black chalk an exact equivalent of the shimmer of light over flesh, muslin and stiff satin that so gripped him in painting...