Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bolt. Sewing machines now do practically everything but press the finished garment. Dial a knob or change a foot and your machine can sew on buttons or make flawless buttonholes. Machines can also darn socks, embroider blouses and monogram pockets as well as baste, hem and stitch once "impossible" materials like leather and stretchable knits. In addition to all this, Singer's expensive Touch & Sew model ($439.95) has solid-state speed control enabling it to breeze through varying thicknesses of fabric without being reset. Today, however, many inexpensive machines (about $60) offer zigzag, hemming and stretch stitches plus...
Despite an utter lack of suspense, delegates in the hall kept close tallies of the vote, as did Eleanor McGovern, who appeared at the convention center to savor the moment. McGovern stayed at the Doral, tracking the ballots, fiddling with the television dial. "Illinois will put us over," said Yancey Martin, McGovern's black director of minorities. It was a small irony that McGovern soared over his required 1,509 with the Illinois delegation that he had rather reluctantly claimed from Richard Daley. In the hall, a brief, almost polite pandemonium broke out and then subsided. McGovern smiled...
...cloud of scarf and glitter, pinned by the spotlights. Nonresponsibility is written into his whole relationship with the audience, over which he has less control than any comparable idol in rock history; Elvis Presley, who can still tune the fans up and down like a technician twisting a dial, is the opposite. Jagger's act is to put himself out like bait and flick away just as the jaws are about to close and the audience comes breaking ravenously over the stage. No other singer alive has transformed arrogance into such a sexual turn-on: it is the essence...
...complaints. A whole new category of "class" actions has become popular, as citizens go to court to sue federal, state or local governments, frequently to prevent them from despoiling the environment. Call for Action, an organization founded in New York, has put out a book indexing what number to dial for what complaint, ranging from noisy jackhammers to flooded basements (it runs to 134 pages). By happy chance, the group's founder, Mrs. Ellen Straus, is the wife of the owner of a local radio station (WMCA) and gets added clout by airing the group's most poignant...
...chemicals attached to the positive is ruptured and spread across the sheet. Within seconds, the finished picture is ready. The other new feature of the Model 95 was Land's "exposure value system," which reduced the previously complex calculation of shutter speed and lens opening to a simple dial adjustment. Variations of it have since become standard on all but the most inexpensive cameras...