Word: knobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rehearsal rooms to tend to a soprano who is feeling neglected. "It's freezing in here," she shivers. (Singers hate air conditioning more than they hate other singers.) Ignoring the air-conditioning controls, Bing ceremoniously goes to the wall and turns the knob for the intercom system. "There," he purrs in his caramel-soft Viennese-British accent, "is that better?" "Yes," she says. "It is much warmer now." (Warm smile...
...does everything wrong. He stands so far back in the batter's box that he cannot possibly reach a curve before it breaks. He holds the bat at the very end, actually gripping the knob on the handle with the fingers of his right hand. He hardly ever gets a base on balls because he swings at practically everything; and he does not bother to study opposing pitchers, or even learn their names. "You never hit the pitcher," he shrugs, "just the pitch." Batting is all a matter of luck anyway. "You no lucky, you get no hits...
Last Stop. They did not have to. Early next morning Cambria County Deputy Sheriff Francis Sharpe, 37, who had spent the night in a friend's cabin under Gobbler's Knob Mountain, went to the cabin's adjoining washhouse. As he entered, he was shot in the belly by Hollenbaugh, who had apparently sought overnight refuge there with Peggy. Hollenbaugh ordered the wounded Sharpe to the deputy's car, forced the girl to lie down on the back floor, and told the lawman to drive the car down a farm road toward Highway 522. Ten feet...
...book is written in the present tense, an irritating literary affectation as a rule. Here the device becomes a knob opening a door to the trancelike continuum of childhood-particularly that of the magic child Huia, with her ancestral talisman, a carved greenstone, and the grace of an imagination that has been touched by the best in two worlds. Sylvia Ashton-Warner does other things easily that most current writers would not attempt to contrive. Huia watches a fight between a brown-skin Maori and a white boy. They are not fighting for status, or out of racial bitterness...
Only after these problems are corrected (sometimes at the price of a special "color-rated" antenna) can the viewer hope to find happiness with his color-control knobs. The INTENSITY knob (labeled COLOR on some sets) determines the quantity of color, the richness of the palette, so to speak; its adjustment is a matter of personal taste. It is the other knob, the TINT or HUE, that is crucial-it determines the tone...