Word: levering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Longet told how she had asked Sabich if "the lever [the safety switch] is on the spot; is it safe? And he said, 'Yes, it won't fire.' " Weedman interjected, "And then the gun went off?" Her eyes filled with tears, Longet said, "Yes." In the gallery, Williams was wet-eyed...
...electronic highway helpers vary in design, but most are batteryless, wireless contraptions about the size of a fuse box. They are usually mounted on sign posts at convenient intervals along the highway. To operate one, the distressed driver simply pulls down a lever-like cover, which winds up a small generator inside the device and exposes a panel with buttons labeled in both English and Spanish: SERVICE, POLICE, MEDICAL and CANCEL. When the motorist presses the appropriate button, the generator produces electricity. This energizes a solid-state FM radio transmitter, which sends a signal to a console at highway-patrol...
...receiving the voluminous ballot said airily, "I don't know what you'd do with all this except paper a barn." Behind the blue curtains she obviously relegated the long list of constitutional changes to the barn: she was closeted only long enough to flip the one lever she cared about...
Even as the delegates in Geneva were conferring, in Rhodesia the guerrilla war against the whites intensified, presumably to demonstrate black nationalist military strength as a bargaining lever. October was the bloodiest month in the nearly four years of fighting, with a death toll of 181 guerrillas, 20 security-force soldiers, twelve white and 88 black civilians. At a dozen points along the border, Mozambique-based guerrillas fired rockets and mortars at white settlements inside Rhodesia. From Zambian bases, other guerrillas attacked a motel in the tourist center of Victoria Falls, killing one white guest and wounding two others...
...long ago as 1917, drivers of Enger autos with V12 engines could shut off fuel to six of the cylinders by moving a lever protruding through the dashboard under the steering column. Ford has substituted electronic for human control in its "dual displacement engine" (DDE). A small (6 in. by 6 in. by 1? in.) black box mounted on the fire wall is fed information from five strategically placed sensors. These devices monitor the temperature of the engine coolant, the engine speed, the transmission setting, the engine manifold vacuum pressure and the throttle angle...