Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viet Nam Memorial near the edge of the Mall in Washington got a more traditional companion piece: a statue of three American soldiers holding their weapons in various attitudes of exhaustion. The memorial is now the most visited monument in the capital. These ceremonies at last served to convey legitimacy on those who fought the war, if not upon the war itself, and thereby accomplished a healing that helped enable Americans to feel good about themselves again...
Baird Professor of Science and Carrier House Master Dudley R. Herschback wants "to understand how to make three electrons happy in infinite space" for Christmas. According to sources in the Science Center, Santa is studying up to that he can convey this knowledge...
...were going to be the richest box company" in America, Ross says. Searching for a name that would convey his company's destiny, he settled on one that he considered synonymous with great wealth...
...return to traditional usages by Jan. 1. No longer will passageways be halls or heads identified as toilets. Windows will once again be portholes, and ceilings will be overheads. Lehman, a naval aviator, also objects to recruiting pitches like "The Army wants to join you," feeling that such lines convey a "sense of apology" about the military. Says Lehman: "We're throwing that sort of thinking into the dustbin...
...ultimate story of the cycle and the only one which fails to feature a celebrated name, Martone address the questions concerning the writer's art and its implied power. Abandoning all conventions, he rapidly juxtaposes images of beauty and destruction in the manner of a slide show to convey a sense of the importance and the impossibility of the writer's craft. The story ends, literally, up in the air, with aerial photographers. The landscape of Indiana recedes; the faceless narrator emerges...