Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...president of Hughes Aircraft, A.D. Wheelon, was an agency alumnus, and the upper ranks of the company were studded with former ranking military and CIA officers. Hughes was known to be intrigued by the possibility of mining the sea for mineral deposits. That interest would make an ideal cover under which to conceal the salvage operation...
...Ideal Spot. In early October, police thought they saw Patty in the Times Square subway station. The girl, who looked remarkably like Patty, was so incensed at being examined by police that she resisted strongly and was arrested, and the story got into the newspapers...
Alarmed, Patty's group fled Manhattan and rented an isolated farmhouse near South Canaan, a hamlet in northwest Pennsylvania about 25 miles from Scranton. They had picked an ideal spot. There were already a number of established hippie communes on the region's abandoned farms, and no one was likely to notice another group arriving in a dusty van to set up housekeeping. Scott paid the total rent of $1,200 in cash...
...plus the possibility of moving about without taking a hard-to-park ton of steel along with you." In case of inclement weather or too many parcels or small children, mass transit would always be available. By geological accident, moreover, the Grenoble valley is almost flat, and thus is ideal for bicycling. The only drawback: auto and truck traffic has made bicycling too dangerous...
...gossip, a serious as well as topical undercurrent can be felt. Should animals be killed to feed humans? In the long run, is the consumption of 10 Ibs. of grain to produce 1 Ib. of beef an equitable or sensible ratio? Is the meatless meal a fashion, an ideal or a specter? These were once the narrow concerns of Victorian freethinkers like George Bernard Shaw or of pop nutritionists like Adelle Davis. But suddenly, in many societies, the question of a high-protein vegetable diet has be come literally a matter of life and death...