Word: hardens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operation took 20 minutes, capped off by a half-dozen blasts from a fire extinguisher to harden the filling (the visual effect was intense--the crease looked like the beginning of "Dark Shadows") and the delay put the then 3-3 game in nerve-wracking perspective. I was waiting for Chad Everett to come out and take Durocher's pulse...
Says he: "What is retirement, anyhow, except sitting in a rocking chair and listening to your arteries harden...
...Richard Harden, 37, assistant for budget and organization. He headed Georgia's department of human resources, which employed half of the 50,000 people on the state payroll, and was campaign budget director...
...great literature that brings some people together also builds barriers. Literary classics may nourish chauvinism and create ideologies. Wars tend to reenforce national stereotypes and to harden ideologies. When the U.S. entered World War I, its schools ceased teaching German. Beethoven and Wagner were taboo. Still, at that very moment, American military research teams were studying German technology. Today, while Indira Gandhi restricts American newsmen and American publications, she desperately tries to make the Indian technology more like the American. Technology dilutes and dissolves ideology...
...these final hours, unless unforetold events intervene, the voters who have decided will harden their positions as they absorb additional glimpses and reports on the men. The undecided will pile up all the pieces of information gathered through these weeks and see which way the scale tips-if it does tip either way. With them, a small item might make the difference. The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee figures that the ingredients will be "seven or eight parts TV, three or four parts reading, one part wife or husband, one part drugstore, one part religion and one part geography...