Word: grid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assortment of dips, hills and fast curves that are taken at upwards of 150 m.p.h. But last week Solitude was downright dangerous. A cloudburst turned the asphalt slick as ice; and it was still pouring dime-sized drops when 18 Formula I cars roared away from the grid, roostertails of spray streaming in their wake...
...brain's arterial roundabout, the Circle of Willis, by drilling a hole in the patient's skull under a local anesthetic and inserting a stainless steel needle (see diagram). This has a hairlike electrode tip only 1/250 in. in diameter, which is positioned precisely by a double-grid system of X rays (see photos). The tip is the positive electrode for a minute current. The negative electrode is attached outside the skull. Within half an hour the iron in the electrode is "plated off" (in effect, dissolved), and much of it goes into the electrically induced blood clot...
...only painter who might be much at home in any Western city's modern museum is Oskar Rabin, an outcast painter who enjoys no official patronage at home. Rabin's four fantasy cityscapes are semiabstractions: a City and Moons balances glowing oval shapes against the dark grid of hazy architectural forms; an American Landscape shows giddy skyscrapers in a land he has never visited. Visions of London and Paris both depict painfully precise, oversized postage stamps (one with Queen Elizabeth) that boldly refute the perspective...
...million for a high-tension distribution grid that will be able to carry 220,000 kw. of power from hydroelectric projects in northern Venezuela to central and western parts of the country...
When I first looked at the program last night, I thought for a moment the Ivy League had revived Spring football. John Hoffman, Bill Grana, Tom Stephenson, Bob Stringer and John Hartranft populate my personal pantheon of grid heroes, not thespians...