Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have the panache that has always been characteristic of those who trust their lives to the winds and their wits. While passing over a mountain in Maine last September, Abruzzo began yodeling through an old brass megaphone on the pleasant theory that he could tell from the echoes how close they were to danger...
...carried the three balloonists' wives, who waved frantically and blew kisses to their husbands. By this time, the adventurers had tossed most of their ballast overboard, including the computers that had helped them navigate and much of the elaborate radio gear that they had used to keep in close touch with monitors back on land...
...Washington, moreover, top officials of both parties foresee no major Republican comeback in either the House or the Senate this fall. Democrats now control the House by 287 seats to 146 and the Senate by 62 to 38. Both sides' predictions of the outcome in November are close: Republican Party officials expect to pick up fewer than 15 seats in the House and none in the Senate; Democratic Party leaders expect to lose no more than twelve in the House and to gain one or two in the Senate...
...maker of auto components, electronic and electrical equipment have nearly doubled since 1972, to $3.3 billion, but energy consumption has declined by 19%. Unnecessary machine runs have been eliminated; the number of ventilating fans cut by a quarter; and air conditioning is now reduced an hour before some plants close...
...reader senses an insufficiency, however. Staring unflinchingly at bad nerves and loneliness is admirable, but fearing to look at any other sort of human condition is not, and the cautiousness of Yates' writing comes very close to fear. - John Skow