Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago there was one local documentary which the DuPont jurors found comparable in scope and technique to the best network product. This year there were dozens." The Columbia jurors, Barrett reported, found local stations taking on tough subjects-"the energy crisis, pollution, land use, law-and-order, urban decay, minorities, TV journalism itself"-and giving them "a human dimension, an originality and freshness, a broad-mindedness along with a specificity" that more generalized network programs rarely achieve. Given the hostility of Government, commercial sponsors and some program managers to on-the-air controversy, Barrett could only link the improvement...
These would prove central to his scientific romances of the 1890s: The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The First Men in the Moon. Wells saw in Darwinism the basic roots of man's decay: natural selection would eventually separate the weak and the strong into two distinct classes. The powerful class would oppressively dominate the subservient one, using it for whatever means it wished. This theme is best seen in The Time Machine, where the cave-dwelling Morlocks lord over the gentle, but inferior Eloi...
...Metropole Hotel and the Bank of Alexandria are scarred by bomb blasts. We were escorted into this canal-side city by Egyptian officers. They kicked down the door of the former British officers' club and led us through a billiards room where the stale smell of dust and decay hung over the neatly racked cues and a picture of the late President Nasser. The rules of the game of snooker in fine curlicued print hung on the wall. The balcony opened onto a littered street where electric lines dangled from telephone poles and a dog lay dead...
Rucci's assassination, the strike and the apparent retaliatory assassination a day later of a leftist youth-labor leader were poor omens for the future of Argentina. The country is plagued not only by terrorism but by bitter political factionalism and economic decay. Perón was returned to office by voters who clearly hoped against hope that el Lider, at once a kind of Latin Mao and second Mussolini, might magically solve the country's problems. The task would be difficult enough for a man in his prime, but Perón is 77 and ailing...
...current fad in the U.S. and Canada spins off that theory, by way of France and Czechoslovakia. French researchers discovered 70 years ago that if they put a dead cat inside a small plywood pyramid, the body did not decay but merely dehydrated or was "mummified." Inspired by that work, Czechoslovak Radio Engineer Karel Drbal fashioned his own small pyramid and stored his razor blades in it. In 1959 Drbal took out a patent on the Cheops Pyramid Razor Blade Sharpener...