Word: looping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memorable escape route is the Coventry-Stratford-Cotswolds Loop, a drive of 200 to 300 miles that can take a leisurely three or four days, with scarcely a neon sign in sight. (A Leyland Mini rents for about $100 a week, unlimited mileage, and sips petrol as if it were rare brandy.) Coventry has risen nobly from the ashes of its 1940 bombing. Next to the surviving western spire of the late medieval cathedral stands the great modern cathedral with vertical thrusts of rose-colored stone and Graham Sutherland's striking altar tapestry...
...loop back to London, the Mini practically drives itself through the lush hills and yellow stone villages of the Cotswolds. From Chipping Norton, one can espy an extraordinary edifice, half-castle, half-factory, called the Bliss tweed mill. Bliss it is: the 1872 mill weaves woolen fabrics for some of the world's great tailors and will sell them to the passer-by for about $10 a yard...
...started to drown out the screams to come. Each prisoner was brought down and told to kneel before an officer in the yard. He was asked to explain why he had been brought in and was told he was being released. Then guards would leap from the darkness, loop a thick rope round the victim's neck and slowly strangle him. The coup de gráce was a sledgehammer blow to the chest. It took about ten minutes to kill each prisoner. The bodies were piled in trucks and driven north for five hours to the Karuma Falls...
...initiate this elegantly simple remedy, the entire secondary loop will be pumped "solid" with water rather than its usual complement of steam and water. Then the primary loop's pumps will be shut off. And lo, what might be called Operation Teakettle will start. Hot water will rise through convection in the reactor's core, and be carried off by a leg of the radioactive-tight primary loop that is already blueprinted as the "hot leg." The water's destination: the steam generator, where it will transfer (exchange, in engineering parlance) much of its heat to the water now flowing...
They don't come expecting exotic sights. Once you've made one loop around the small island where the ducks live, there's nothing too exciting to see. Instead, the "swanboat experience" is passive. Sit on the park benches bolted to these flat-bottomed tubs, let the sun heat you shoulder-blades, and listen to the subdued whir of the propellers...