Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arriving in Plains, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter walked through a chill drizzle as some 3,500 Georgians shouted a welcome. Pale and tired, the two nevertheless smiled happily. Carter clambered atop a flatbed truck and announced that every one of the 52 was alive, was well, and was free. Amid cheers and tears, Carter wiped away a few of his own, before declaring: "They are hostages no more, they are prisoners no more, and they are coming back to this land we all love...
...from his first appearance in the striking shipyard last August, Walesa showed an instinctive ability to inspire crowds and win their trust. Standing atop the shipyard gates, a microphone in one hand, the other raised in a clenched-fist salute, he mesmerized his audiences with a mixture of folksy quips and deadly serious admonitions...
...have dealt with Kosygin have remarked on the former Premier's fanatic, indeed almost inhuman, devotion to duty. In 1967, when Kosygin learned that his wife Klavdiya was dying, for example, he did not interrupt his working day. When word of her death reached him, he remained atop the Lenin mausoleum on Red Square until he had finished reviewing a parade. Last week the great survivor's own passing was duly noted by his colleagues in the Kremlin, but was not conspicuously mourned...
...devices are called railguns, not because they sit atop railroad cars, like World War I artillery pieces, but because they consist of two parallel rails which act as both gunpowder and barrel. When the gun is fired, a powerful pulse of electricity goes down one rail. As the current surges to the other rail, it vaporizes a metallic fuse in back of the bullet, creating a cloud of electrically charged particles, or plasma. Simultaneously, it generates a strong magnetic field between the rails, like those in an electric motor. The field exerts a force against the plasma, just...
...Stratford, there was Ron Daniels' experimentally modernized Romeo and Juliet, with Romeo (Anton Lesser) and his mates decked out in boots and leather jackets, and Juliet (Judy Buxton) playing her balcony scene atop what looked like an abstract painting. Also at Stratford, R.S.C. Veteran Alan Howard, directed by Terry Hands, was essaying both of Shakespeare's Richards, II and III. In the latter, a sort of cooked-up Jacobean melodrama, Howard hobbled about a raked stage somewhat more fleetly than he actually managed some of the lines...