Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sacrificing an extra passenger for the bucket's thronelike comfort. Racing-style stick shifts sprout from car floors, even when they are really only disguised automatic transmission levers. Tachometers stare from dashboards to dazzle the Sunday driver with precious information as to how many revolutions per minute his motor is delivering. And where car nomenclature once connoted carriage-trade-victoria, brougham, landau-the new names and models now smack of high compression-Monza, Le Mans, J-TR, Spyder, Grand Prix...
...emphasis on independence and clarity of thought. The belief is that once a man has, through study of the basic work in a given discipline, achieved a clear idea of what his capabilities are, he is ready for any kind of work, from the civil service to motor car manufacturing...
...remains chipper, although one U.S. visitor who heard him preach recently says that his mind tends to wander. At night, only he and an American duty officer occupy the legation. Outside, three black sedans of the Hungarian secret police are on around-the-clock alert; one always has its motor running, in case the cardinal should try to escape...
Cambridge is a city of 6.2 square miles, 98,958 people and 37,440 registered motor vehicles. For many years it has been distinguished by a cruel rat maze of street patterns and traffic signals, pedestrians who enjoy the legal right-of-way over red lights and policemen, heavy trucks that rumble through the city for points north of Boston, and commuters from Belmont and Watertown who drive a legion of automobiles into Cambridge, park them, and leave on the MTA for work. While these distinguishing features have persisted, Cambridge traffic has become more snarled with each passing year...
...studied natural enzyme that breaks down the ribonucleic acid found in all cells. With delicate skill, he split the ribonuclease into two parts, one containing 20 amino acids, the other containing 104. In this disjointed condition the enzyme has no effectiveness. It is like a machine tool with the motor separated from the cutting edge...