Word: inched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what one witness called "dossier dictatorship"-the vast files that are now being computerized by assorted snoopers, ranging from credit bureaus to Army agents, who allegedly concentrate their spying on war protesters. Dramatizing his worries about computers, Ervin displayed two props: a 1,245-page Bible and a two-inch-square piece of microfilm, each containing 773,746 words. "Someone remarked that this meant the Constitution could be reduced to the size of a pin-head," he drawled. "I said I thought maybe that was what they had done with it in the Executive Branch because some of those officials...
...production of "How Can I Tell You" necessitates two kinds of expertise not often found together. WGBH, Boston's educational television station, produces the program, and the 21-inch Classroom, a bureau of the Massachusetts Board of Education composed primarily of professional educators, plans and writes it. "Some people know about kids, and some people know about television, but very few know about both," said Peter Greenspan, a field representative for the 21-inch Classroom. No audience survey for "How Can I Tell You" has been taken yet, but currently 180 school systems comprising 700,000 pupils subscribe...
...Gulf of California, runs through most of the state, and then bends into the Pacific north of San Francisco. Furthermore, the sliver of land west of the fault, which includes Los Angeles, tends to move inexorably to the northwest, at a molasses-like average pace of an inch or so a year. Slow as that movement is, friction between the land masses causes them to stick together, and strains gradually build up. When the accumulating strain finally reaches the breaking point, the pent-up energy is suddenly released and results in violent shifting of land...
Later Dr. Richard Noviek, of the Public Health Research Institute for New York City, presented Dr. Teller with the Strangelove Award "on behalf of his excellent imitation of Peter Sellers.' It was a ten-inch silver statue of a man aiming a gun and inscribed, "I was just following orders." Dr. Teller rose and announced with mock humility that he had received many awards in his lifetime, "many of them also undeserved." But he had never refused one. And then, muttering more about inconsistency, he refused this one and plopped it back down in front of Dr. Novick with...
...dough in shape." And take her treatment of lobsters. She tells you how to determine their sex (the last pair of swimmerets on the male are hard, pointed, and hairless). She tells you how to kill them humanely. ("Using a sharp knife or lobster shears, cut straight down 1/2 inch into the back of the lobster, at the point where tail and chest join, thus severing the spinal cord and killing the lobster instantly.") For all who think that that's all there is to it, she adds disconcertingly, "To paralyze all muscle spasms, plunge the lobster head first into...