Word: errants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FICTION : The condenser's failure actuates a red light on a fail-safe "black box" in the errant squadron commander's cockpit. The code numbers that show up in the box jibe with the secret code packets held by pilot and copilot, authenticating the "go" signal...
Scully was fouled as Dartmouth pressed for the ball, and calmly sank two shots on a one-and-one deal. Pete Coker of Dartmouth made a corner jump shot, and when the Big Green retrieved an errant Crimson pass they called time...
...True, it is of only academic interest that a song called In the Bright Mohawk Valley migrated west from stream to stream, new title to new title, until it settled down in the Red River Valley as a Western woman's torch song for her cowboy-errant. Similarly, a British ballad called The Unfortunate Rake, about a soldier dying of syphilis, went through several mutations before it traveled to Texas and became the national anthem of the trackless range, The Streets of Laredo...
...Like Errant Satellites. With that, a wily Panamanian introduces a resolution in the U.N. condemning the U.S. for discrimination and ordering a U.N. investigation of U.S. racial practices. To head off this vote, the Administration per suades a young Negro Congressman named Cullee Hamilton to propose a joint resolution on Capitol Hill that would apologize to Terrible Terry, grant Goroto $10 million in hush money, and to speed up integration. Subplots sub-subplots whirl around these two resolutions like so many errant satellites; the chapters stretch on and on. In the end, Congress adopts Hamilton's proposal...
Among the forces that buffet the U.S. economy, few have preoccupied economists more than the way in which U.S. merchants and manufacturers manage their inventories. Fortnight ago, the errant ways of inventory buyers came under the cold eye of the Joint Congressional Economic Committee. Historically, fluctuations in inventory buying have accentuated swings in the business cycle: in a recovery, businessmen help to create inflation by rapidly building up their inventories, and in a recession they contribute to unemployment by cutting back sharply on their orders. "Investment in inventories," lamented the Joint Committee's economic experts, "has been perverse...