Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reading the newspaper these days is like Alice peering at the looking glass. Nothing is as it once seemed. Up is down, left is right, night...
...looking glass phenomenon has even reached us here at Harvard. The endowment is down and financial aid is up. Strangely, this year a global symbol of democratic hope, Nelson Mandela, was honored by the powers-that-be. At the same time, not a single Communist dictator has been seen gracing the stage of Sanders Theatre...
Cuppett himself used his Crimson Cash Card to buy a glass vase from The Coop on the first day the service was offered...
...serendipitous marriage of marketing and technology. Without resellers, customers would be few, and without cell technology, service would be limited. At first Iridium planned a purist, sky-to-ground approach that would have cut out the local cellular-network middlemen. But that wasn't very feasible in the glass-and-steel canyons of bustling cities, where customers would be out of the line of sight of the heavens and service would be spotty. (Imagine explaining to an irked CEO that his pricey new handset won't work from his office building unless he climbs to the roof.) Bowing to technological...
...every direction, nothing but tiny pieces of debris. The jet lay unrecognizable, "like a huge pane of shattered glass." And scattered among the shards were the people he had come for. He found an eye, a heart, a jawbone. Part of a hand embedded in an armrest. Poirier tries the word hellish to describe the scene, then takes it back...