Word: bays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN AN INTRUDER sneaks into Queen Elizabeth's bedroom in Buckingham Palace and holds the monarch at bay for 15 minutes with a broken glass ashtray, nothing the United States could do--short of attacking the Cliffs of Dover--would distract the British people from their chagrin and outrage...
...Hussein's government. Saddam Hussein's downfall would also provoke grave apprehensions in the gulf sheikdoms (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates). Those states and Saudi Arabia have poured at least $20 billion into Iraqi coffers to help keep the advancing Iranian forces at bay. If Iraq succumbs to Khomeini's aggression, it would probably become a Shi'ite-ruled Arab nation inclined to spread the Islamic revolutionary gospel throughout the Arabian peninsula, where sizable Shi'ite populations have long resented the clannish Sunni monarchies that rule them. The tiny island state...
...satellites, or even the shuttle, to navigate without guidance from earth. During the last flight, the only references to the top-secret devices came in the form of cryptic commands to the astronauts from the Air Force Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, Calif. ("Switch 3-A to full auto. Bay 1 to zebra plus 3"). NASA's new security consciousness represents a sharp break with its traditional openness about space activities. It also reflects the Administration's concern with meeting the Soviet challenge in what military planners consider the new high ground of space. Already, the Soviets...
...billings: $11.4 billion) has probably done more to transform the landscape of America and the world than any other company of this century. Among their many engineering extravaganzas, Bechtel's master builders have helped to design and construct everything from the Hoover Dam and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to the trans-Alaska pipeline and the Washington metro subway system...
Farce is the art of not keeping madness at bay. Michael Frayn has written an insanely funny play on precisely that premise. Act I of Noises Off consists of the dress rehearsal of Act I of Nothing On, a play that is about to tour the provinces. The set is a cheerfully bright living room with stairs leading up to bedrooms and a clothes closet. The house appears to be deserted. But no, Mrs. Clacket (Patricia Routledge), the housekeeper, is on the premises. Routledge is a one-woman aviary, walking, cawing and almost flying like a bird...