Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devices could be used to play sleight-of-button games and spell words. Because on most calculators, the glowing digits of the readout screen, when inverted, look more or less like letters of the alphabet,* the calculator owner can use the machine to compose more than 100 words and endless riddles. For example, to get the calculator to devise words suggestive of the energy crisis: put 42.46407 into the machine, divide by 3 and multiply by 5. Upside down the machine spells ShELL OIL (the floating decimal separates the words). Faced with a parking ticket, the calculator owner can come...
...only port city of any size. But there are developing ports at Banias and Tartous. In the interior, the Orontes River, which flows perversely to the north while all the others in the Fertile Crescent flow south, waters a lush plain where the wheat fields are as endless as those in Kansas or Nebraska. This year Syria expects a bumper crop of two million tons. Farther to the west, along the Euphrates River, a giant dam will be finished this year. It will add another 1.6 million acres of arable farm land to the economy and eventually quadruple Syria...
...pigs. Yet from the viewpoint of the government's supposed emerald monopoly, most of the stones might as well be buried beyond reach. The real rulers of the jungle-matted minefields are the esmeralderos (emerald buccaneers); they buy and steal illegally mined stones, smuggle them out, engage in endless shootouts and wind up with most of the estimated $150 million that global sales of Colombian emeralds generate each year. Fed up, the government closed most of its money-losing mines last year and invited bids for concessions to operate its richest deposits. Not one company or consortium would touch...
...tended to regard issues of departmental requirements and organization or the "quality" and "ethical content" of undergraduate courses as liberal distractions from the task of scrutinizing Harvard's involvement in activities outside university walls. With ample justification student activists have seen CUE's activities as involving little more than endless pettifogging over calendar reforms and other minor legislation...
...Alger Hiss case, 25 years ago. I remember his accusers and defenders, his typewriter, his Ford and his Petersboro trip, the apartment he subletted and the carpet he received. I think of the facts and the denials, the interpretations and the reexaminations, the two trials and the endless press speculation. It has been almost a quarter century since the jury convicted Alger Hiss, and since then even more information has been dredged up to the surface. We have more details, the picture grows more complete, but somehow we know that we shall never have a satisfactory answer to the question...