Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalist on NBC's Meet the Press, a program that displays Lisagor's most conspicuous talent: he is far and away the most skillful interrogator in the business. On TV, at press conferences, and at the now-famous breakfasts run by Godfrey Sperling of the Christian Science Monitor, he breaks through the reserve of official after official with the wit, insight and irreverence of his questions...
...Thomas Alva Edison inaugurated the nation's first steam-electric power station in lower Manhattan, the U.S. has become extraordinarily dependent on electricity. Americans now take for granted the busy computers that click in offices, the lights that blaze all night in poultry farms, the sensitive machines that monitor patients in hospitals. The average U.S. household contains 16 electrical appliances. But the day may come when people casually flip a switch or lift a receiver-and nothing will happen...
...conference reached no formal decisions, but as it ended, there was an air of optimism that somehow an international agency would be devised to monitor the exploitation of all that underwater wealth. Pardo predicted that the U.N. would start setting up such a regime next year, though he conceded that a binding treaty could not be completed until 1973 at the earliest. Other delegates thought that an independent agency could do the job more efficiently than the bureaucracy-ridden U.N. Lord Ritchie-Calder likened the process to "the opening up of the last frontier. First, adventurers go into virgin-territories...
Wisdom Coleman, once principal of a high school in Greenwood, Miss., lacked even an office at the school to which he was reassigned. He was a "hall monitor." James Noah, who was head coach at all-black C. M. Washington High School in Thibodaux, La., had 16 years of successful football behind him when he was "integrated"-transferred to a formerly all-white high school and made assistant coach on the "B" team. White officials explain that there are simply not enough comparable jobs to go around, and invariably find the whites better qualified. One favorite ploy is to assign...
...foundation stone for a Chinese-built naval base at Dar es Salaam. The Indian Ocean waters off Tanzania are a natural splashdown area for ICBMs test-fired out of western China and over India, and Peking might just be looking to the day when it is ready to monitor a missile test...