Word: enamels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...descriptions of his negotiations; in Moscow, his aides have telephoned American newsmen with breathless accounts of his progress. His Soviet trips have won extremely rare recognition in Pravda and Izvestia, favorable editorials in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and a pair of red-white-and-blue enamel cuff links presented by President Nixon...
John Malachowsky, an eighth-grader in West Babylon, N.Y., has been an avid builder of model rockets and airplanes since he was eight years old. When the price of his favorite enamel went from 15? to 19? a bottle, he realized that his $2-a-week allowance would not absorb the shock. So he sent a complaint to the Price Commission, charging that the Tester Corp. of Rockford, Ill., had raised the list price of its "Pla Enamel" well over 25%. "This is only $.04," he wrote, "but being only 12¾ years old, this is a big strain...
...there are no commuter straps above the cantilevered seats-the system hopes to provide each rider with a seat. Electronic equipment maintains a running check on each train's mechanical health. There are automatic doors, air conditioning and stations glowing in a dazzling, multicolored array of huge graphics, enamel murals, mosaic columns and Fiberglas reliefs...
...pitch the blending of a New England boiled lobster, a day's worth of bloody marys, gin and tonics, and scotch-on-the-rocks, and a schedule of tennis, golf, and after-dinner dancing squarely into the hopper. At first, he only groaned; his hands anchored to the enamel circle, he prayed for his heart to fall back into first without tearing out the transmission. And then he began with methodic attention to wipe from his face the vomit and sweat...
...world tour so much that he repeated it the following year. Now, as he stood contemplating his small frame house, visions of beautiful ladies in Thailand and Singapore, heaving ships at sea, castles on the Rhine bubbled through his brain. He seized his 3-in. brush and green semigloss enamel and began to paint a small grass hut on one wall. It wasn't bad, considering that he had never painted a picture in his life. By the end of the day, the wall was decorated with glassy-eyed maidens and churning waves, and Sanford Darling had found...