Word: dwelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through the American heartland, stopping off to beam the show live from Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. What might have been merely a promotional stunt turned into an enticing Baedeker of American urban life and the country's romance with the rails. The show did not simply dwell on the sunny side of the tracks; Gumbel and Pauley examined troubled race relations in Memphis and Cincinnati's antipornography laws...
Despite their differences, however, the two groups share the anxiety of outnumbered usurpers. They dwell in the past, using jargon and jingoism, history and mythology to erect walls around themselves and ward off the unknown. The white South African, contends Crapanzano, exists in a state of suspended animation. His waiting produces "feelings of powerlessness, helplessness . . . and all the rage that these feelings evoke...
...anniversary label on its packages and that they should begin clearing out stocks of preanniversary bottles. This aroused the suspicion of Jesse Meyers, a Greenwich, Conn., industry follower who puts out a newsletter called Beverage Digest. Meyers felt that it was simply not like the forward-looking Goizueta to dwell on an anniversary. He did some checking and on April 19, four days before Coke's announcement, broke the story...
James Dance's "Cricket, An Heroic Poem" is more light hearted verse. This English fascination with the sport foreshadows America's own fixation with baseball: "They pleasures, cricket! All his heart control; They eager transports dwell upon his soul." After denouncing billiards, and cricket's sister sport tennis, Dance elevates cricket to a heroic level, emblemtic of London's proud, patriotic demeanor...
...perhaps to as little as 50 sec., by equipping attack missiles with more powerful rocket thrusters and toughening their skins so that they could withstand a faster trip through the atmosphere. Missiles could also be made to spin like rifle bullets, so that laser or particle beams could not dwell on one spot, and be given reflective coatings to deflect or diffuse the beams. To be sure, the Soviets would pay a price: such measures would reduce the numbers of warheads and decoys that a missile could carry, and that would make post- boost or mid-course interception somewhat easier...