Word: loading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those 4800 people who arrive in the Square the day before the Fourth of July? They are, first of all, those who can afford to come. Summer School itself is not overly expensive: registration costs $25, each half-course is $165 (the usual load is two half-courses), and the fee for auditing varies from $20 to $110 a course, depending on the rest of the program. But there are living expenses, too: almost all the non-Radcliffe girls, and many of the non-Harvard boys, live in the dorms, where room and board...
Seconded Florida's James Haley: "Load a boat full of them and take them 500 miles out into the ocean and handcuff them, chain the anchor around their necks and throw them overboard...
...compensation for the "dead weight on my life never to have known the dangers of the last war and never to have discovered whether I am a hero or a coward." When it appears that his wife will have to evacuate their Kentish country house, he advises her to load their Buick with two things: her jewels and his diaries. The Battle of Britain inspires unashamed pride: "I have always loved England. Now I am in love with England. What a people! What a chance! And the chance that we shall by our stubbornness give victory to the world...
...Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C. It began in southeastern Pennsylvania, when a 230,000-volt power line abruptly surged with 606,000 kilowatts. The overloaded line heated up and cross-circuited with a low-voltage line. The Philadelphia Electric Co. had twice warned system dispatchers to anticipate a heavy load and split it between two lines, but the orders, for some reason, were disregarded. The short circuit automatically shut down Philadelphia Electric's Muddy Run power station. Inexplicably, two other generating plants in Pennsylvania and New Jersey shut down, and the system fell dead...
...overriding economic word was oil, as Arab states, which produce 30% of the world's supply, decided to use their wells as weapons. Iraq, Libya and Algeria cut off all oil shipments, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia embargoed shipments to the U.S. and Britain, and small Qatar refused to load the ships of either nation. The situation seemed most serious for Britain, which gets two-thirds of its oil from the Arabs and has only a 30-day stock on hand. France and Italy, neither of whom was singled out for retaliation by the Arabs, count on their cross-Mediterranean...