Word: charting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coordinate efforts to deal with the pollution. City officials, meanwhile, rushed to complete what is ambitiously billed as "the world's quickest photochemical-smog warning system"-which means daily bulletins issued via radio and TV. So far, the smog is seeping across Japan faster than humans can chart it. On a hot, bright day last week, it reached Shikoku, smallest of Japan's four main islands, where more schoolchildren were suddenly afflicted with sore throats and eyes. Pollution experts later surmised that a freak wind had blown pollutants 70 miles across the Inland Sea from the industrial cities...
Homicidal Eve. Things happen: Maria aborts another man's child, tries to find the vanished Nevada hamlet where she grew up, is a passive accomplice in a friend's suicide. Mostly, though, the book is a fever chart of psychic pain. Maria cries constantly. She drives the freeways maniacally. She alternately ignores friends or calls them in the middle of the night. All of what Robert Lowell called "the kingdom of the mad"-its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye-is here. Maria's private hell is constantly invaded by real-life demons of the show business world...
...chart presented by the Quaker Oatsrepresentative ranked common breakfasts in order of nutritional value. It showed that black coffee alone contains no nutrition...
...Scientists representing the cereal companies counterattacked Tuesday, denouncing a chart prepared by Choate which listed popular cereals in descending order of nutritional value...
Appearing with the director of research at the Quaker Oats Co., Stare said that tree chart failed to evaluate the cereals "the way 95 per cent of breakfast cereals are consumed, that is, with milk...