Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BORDER CROSSINGS and check-points punctuated the 24-hour Paris to Warsaw train ride. The car had filled up in West Germany with Polish families returning from visits with relatives. Following tearful good-byes, lively conversation picked up in my compartment. Passengers fussed with overstuffed suitcases, fearful that they might burst open. Each family brought several large pieces of luggage stuffed with clothes and food. Cartons of orange juice spilled out of the purse of the young woman sitting next to me. I asked about the many parcels. "We have nothing," a Polish woman explained...
...Corporation has also eased away from scholarly matters: in its early days it played a vigorous day-to-day role in academic administration of the college, but today it only exerts a final check on all but the most extreme issues of teaching and research...
Janis fished some sandwich bags from her pack, and Jeff began collecting pieces of eggshell, olive brown flecked with mocha spots, membrane gooey on the white inside. Somebody with a micrometer would check the specimens for thickness. In the days of DDT, the shells thinned dangerously, though not fatally. In the days of acid rain, one worries−without evidence, so far−that the shells might thin again...
...boot because he was too staunch an advocate of arms-control negotiations with the U.S. Ogarkov served as the Soviet Union's chief military representative to the first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks at a time when the Soviet leadership was convinced of the need to check American advances in weaponry at the negotiating table. Ogarkov is thought to have pushed for the start of talks in Vienna this fall on limiting the arms race in space, but he may have run up against opposition from his boss, Ustinov, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who have...
...international calls are yet to be offered). The unit on the airplane is programmed to search out the best of Airfone's ground relay stations across the nation, one of which will automatically transfer the call to regular AT&T long lines. Callers will even be able to check in with their home answering machines for messages, talk to their stockbrokers and place orders with their favorite catalog houses. The charges, which will appear on the customer's monthly credit-card statement, are high-altitude: $7.50 for the first three minutes or less and $1.25 for each additional...