Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turning from the hearth...
...absence made no legislative hearts grow fonder. "The People Are Watching." Last week, as the legislature entered its final hours, it suddenly became clear that Rocky's feet were being held to the fire on his home-state hearth. Republicans controlled both assembly (85 to 65) and senate (33 to 25). But three of Rocky's favorite legislative proposals -outlawing full-crew railroad featherbedding practices, revising the 30-year-old state liquor laws and creating a tough legislative code of ethics-were deep in trouble. Since Rocky had no out-of-state political visits on his schedule last...
...family gathered around the electronic hearth some evening in 2064, and Mother says: "Tonight, let's play Great-great-great-grandfather...
...first to take the long-shot gamble to develop large-capacity oxygen steelmaking furnaces and to use computers to control them, now leads the industry in this most efficient of all steel-producing methods. The company's oxygen furnaces cook steel four times faster than the best open-hearth furnaces, thus reducing costs by up to $8 per ton. J. & L. also saves money by using computers to handle everything from customers' orders to inventory control. It operates the most highly mechanized coal mine in the U.S. near Pittsburgh, led the way in sintering iron ore to make...
...bulldog. He grabs young wenches by the backs of their skirts and topples them onto piles of new-mown hay. He is up to his pointed chin in geese, cattle, ducks, pigs, horses, and a yelping nation of dogs. Mornings, he can be found asleep on the hearth where he passed out, the coals of a great fire still dying beside him, a dog or two nestled in his armpits...