Word: headset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fully outfitted and commissioned in November 1980, its 154 officers and sailors will be the envy of the Navy's submariners. The crew will live in nine-man rooms instead of mass dormitories, each room with a table and lounge. At every bunk will be a stereo headset for listening to music. These amenities are important. Explains Rear Admiral Charles Larson, the Trident program coordinator: "The physical limit on how long you can stay out on a nuclear submarine is determined by the food and other consumables on board -and the psychological limit of the crew. There...
Burns could gauge the intensity of presidential concern from her headset, but she kept it all to herself. The phones hummed with hushed anxiety during the Cuban missile crisis, kept secret for six days. The Kennedy assassination strained the White House switchboard more than any other single event. Calls came in from all over the world, but the lines were so busy that only a fraction got through. People would call in distress and just sob, "Get me the East Room," which was where Kennedy's body...
...ovens to reach the correct temperature for each dish according to the recipe, starting at 7:15 p.m. Alice then joins a televised discussion of Byzantine art (which she has studied by computer). Later she wanders into the computer room where Al ("Laddy") Jr. has just learned from his headset that his drill in Latin verb conjugation was "groovy...
...Houston housewife, began jogging a few years ago, she did it inside her house. She reckoned 73 laps to the mile, and says that she changed direction every ten laps to keep from getting dizzy. Now she runs three miles a day through the streets, wearing a headset radio to keep from getting bored...
Ford's speech, delivered the following day, was a mirror image of Brezhnev's, in the sense that the points ignored by the Soviet leader were the ones stressed by the U.S. President. While Brezhnev listened to a translation through a headset and jotted notes, Ford emphasized the importance of the Basket Three principles of liberty of thought, movement, and the flow of information. He also gave measured stress to the phrase "and the possibility of change by peaceful means," citing Berlin as "a flashpoint of confrontation in the past [that] can provide an example of peaceful settlement...