Word: interlocking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the painter would accomplish "nothing at all, since he is thinking of the end before he has made a beginning." Yet, though Leonardo did leave his St. Jerome unfinished, the whole range of human virtue, from leonine passion to saintly devotion, is here made manifest. Animal and intellectual interlock. The gold of dusk suffuses an image of human reverence that remains, for all its seeming tentativeness, wondrously whole, complete as it was thought...
...Battery A, 45th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade, near suburban Arlington Heights, Ill. last week, blackbooted soldiers in fresh-starched fatigues worked over radar screens and Nike missile launch gear. Amidst the familiar incense of hot electronic equipment they chanted their trade litany as they practiced tracking on unsuspecting airliners: "Interlock held. Interlock cheated . . . Line volts O.K. . . . Three-quarters, three-quarters...
Aluminum Shingles. "Lifetime" aluminum roof shingles in six baked-enamel colors embossed with wood grain were announced by Reynolds Metals Co. The shingles interlock to withstand high winds. Price...
...almost instantaneous coordination of all its parts, beginning with the outlying alarm bells of the newly completed, $600 million Arctic portion of the DEW line. Stretching for 3,000 miles along the northern rim of the continent, this line includes more than 50 stations whose surveillance radars interlock like an electric warning fan twelve miles high, from Alaska's Cape Lisburne to Canada's Baffin Island...
This poetry has three concepts which interlock but never dominate each other, Guillen pointed out, mystical, allegorical, and religious...