Word: corded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They figured out a way to make a cooking fire by rubbing a steel cord across a log and then pouring gunpowder on it. After months of experimenting, they discovered how to distill pure salt from sea water, then used the salt to preserve the meat of cows and wild pigs that they occasionally managed to kill. They kept an eye on the U.S. base -and on its garbage dump, which they sometimes raided for supplies. Using discarded tools and old tires, they fashioned round, oversized sandals that both protected their feet and ingeniously disguised their footprints. Deciding that...
Like Moses, Douglas leads the way but never settles in the promised land. Thirty miles from it, as he descends by rope from a cliff, the widowed bride coldly cuts the cord and he plummets to the rocks below. A wooden slab marks his resting place, and the troupe troops on to Oregon...
Heady now with the freedom of being away from family and on his own ("The silver cord has just now been replaced by the telephone wire"), Buswell likes the "frantic balance" that college has imposed on his life. "Harvard," he says, "is the kind of place where you feel guilty every time you play ping-pong." It is hectic, but when things get tight, he is renowned in the dorm for his ability to "wonk" (know spelled backward), or cram, for exams. Last week, preparing for back-to-back concerts in Hackensack, N.J., and Akron, James Oliver Buswell IV sighed...
...boxy little (1,730 Ibs.) electric car will carry two passengers at speeds up to 25 m.p.h. Its twelve conventional six-volt lead-acid batteries will drive it for 50 miles at a cost of about 10 a mile, can be recharged in eight hours through a cord plugged into ordinary house current. Many motorists may balk at joining the Westinghouse rebellion, since the car, which will sell for "under $2,-000," will need $300 worth of new batteries every two years. Still Westinghouse claims that it already has orders in hand for the minimum 500 Markettes it will produce...
...spectacle features Finley's distinctive double-clutch lecture shuffle: from the podium two steps to the left, a pause, an extension of the right foot accompanied by a sweep of the hand, a snap of the microphone cord, two steps back to the right, a resting of the right arm on the podium and a flourishing of the left arm in a classic pose. Some are amused. But by the end of the fall term, only 200 of the 500 students in the course were attending lectures...