Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furtively crept out way across the Eliot House courtyard and teed up a Titleist before the banks of the Charles. I performed the functions of Spence's caddy, looking somewhat like a hod carrier for a bricklayer. With only a chorus of quizzical birds watching, Spence unsheathed a nine-iron from his bag and sent the first shot of spring skittering across the Charles. To paraphrase Jos Sedley in Vanity Fair: "Gad, there we were, singing away like--a robin...
Still, the business community was taking no chances. At the headquarters of a major multinational company, an iron gate was installed to protect the offices against attacks by street mobs. The top management of a French heavy-machinery company in the Paris suburbs changed the locks on their factory doors to prevent a lockout by workers. Commercial transactions were being carried out mainly on a day-to-day basis, with immediate payment demanded. In the vast government ministries, the bureaucracy meandered, as decisions were postponed until after the elections...
...This is the story about a man/ With iron fists and a beauItiful tan./ He talks a lot and boasts indeed/ Of a powerful punch and blinding speed." So wrote Muhammad Ali in his autobiographical verse. But when San Francisco Correspondent James Wilde went to see Ali for our cover story, the fighter did not want to elaborate on his career. Ali told Wilde...
...been a long day, and Darth Vader was looking for a party. He turned to the winged woman beside him, and said raspingly through his iron mask, "Let's check out the one on the tenth floor...
Memory-Babbage dubbed this unit the store, and it does just that; it stores information until it is needed by other parts of the machine. For nearly two decades the most popular memory in modern computers has been the magnetic core variety. It consists of thousands of tiny iron rings, each one encircling an intersection of two wires in a rectangular grid made up of thousands of wires. Depending on the direction of current in the two wires that pass through its hole, each doughnut is magnetized in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. This represents either...