Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exceeding the 55 m.p.h. speed limit," intones the engine. "Time to fill 'er up," announces the gas tank. It sounds like something out of Looney Tunes, but a talking Ford may well be in the future, not to mention babbling Buicks and loquacious Lincolns. Ford and General Motors are tinkering with computerized voice synthesizers that in several years could replace the dashboard gauges with oral announcements about the condition of the car. Officials of both companies stress that audible autos are still a long way off, but, says a GM spokesman, "We might have something to show...
...even a general." Thank God there is a war going on. To break up the moony romantic scenes, Ike offers a colorful tour of the Normandy invasion, the Battle of the Bulge and the debacle of the Kasserine Pass. Evocative old newsreels, with their Lowell Thomas narration blessedly intact, fill in the skirmishes that are not covered by Ike's budget...
...ability to transmit facts without bias or feeling, in the best deadpan Dragnet manner of "only the facts, ma'am." People who are used to having Cronkite or Chancellor escort the news into their homes feel no connection with reporters, even those with recognized bylines, who impersonally fill their front pages. That contrast asserts Arnold Rosenfeld, editor of the Dayton Daily News, often favors TV personalities "who we print journalists think do a pretty lame job of news gathering." If Rosenfeld's paper headlines a local story 3 DIE IN FLAMING CRASH, the paper's spare recital...
...technique is designed to fill bare spots in healthy lawns, Gray said. This process poses no threat to existing grass, he added...
...suggestions were seen as an effort to fill positions for which there are not enough blacks and an attempt to assuage criticism of the nation's racial policies...