Word: fastens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tragic deaths occurred because of the absence of pillar guardrails along the road in the underpass and the failure to fasten seat belts. RICHARD LAINE San Carlos, Calif...
With the economy healthy, travel booming and airlines' profits surging, the industry is less likely to bring back the frills. "The quality of the experience has declined over time," says Deutsch. "The airlines have the upper hand. And I don't see it changing in the near future." So fasten your seat belts, folks--it's going to be a bumpy flight...
...take." Health and biomedical researchers all agree that for now, the best offense against the ravages of time is a level-headed defense: watch your weight, knock off the booze, quash the cigarettes, get plenty of sleep and exercise, keep tabs on your blood pressure and, for good measure, fasten your seat belt...
...gaudily hyped Olympics were suddenly overcome by their media countershadow--so that the brightness now trails an equal and opposite darkness. Is it that terror and the media were implicated in some interconnected, overcommercialized Heisenberg effect? Did the media focus on the Games invite a terrorist to fasten his fatal attention where the lights were brightest? Perhaps. (On the other hand, the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia and elsewhere carried on its terror with no lights or cameras on hand. The Klan never heard of Werner Heisenberg...
...event leaves the rest of us in a state of unease and vulnerability. The flight attendant still instructs us to fasten our seat belts and to bring our seat backs and tray tables to an upright position before takeoff--all the irritating in-flight punctilio, with its bloodless ritual language--but as we strap ourselves in, our minds are projecting fireballs, and calculating odds, and trying to calm themselves more urgently than before. The worst part of jet travel is our eggs-in-a-carton passivity: inert flesh encapsulated for a leap of faith that may be (we tell ourselves...