Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to snip the budding fake identification industry, the state Registry of Motor Vehicles plans to add extra safeguards designed to prevent those under 21 years old from using altered licenses to buy liquor...
...nearly all Americans. Nothing, in theory, could be more democratic than that. But as I see and hear America now, I marvel at the apparent enslavement of a robust people to their machines. Nearly everyone must live within earshot of the snarling, thunderous din of traffic. People who motor to their places of employment must make allowances for the time they will spend sitting still in long lines and for the time they will have to devote to finding a place to put their automobile once they arrive. To be spared such an ordeal would seem a blessing...
NASA had carefully tracked the O-ring problem on paper since 1978, some three years before the first shuttle flight, on April 12, 1981. As early as Jan. 19, 1979, John Q. Miller, chief of the solid motor branch at Marshall, where the boosters were developed, complained to his superiors that the seal was functioning "in a way which violates industry and Government O-ring application practices." On May 29, 1980, a NASA engineering panel noted that the O rings had failed in a ground test and called them "inadequate" for reliability and "marginal" in their safety...
...began raining, and fat drops played the roof while the two friends played on: "Give me yoh money, baby gal,/ Let me use it for myself." Whiskey pints circled round and round and round the porch. In this fashion, the afternoon slid away, as did most necessary motor skills...
Faul recalled how one family put seven kids through Harvard and stayed at the Harvard Motor House for 11 consecutive Commencements. Eventually the personnel at the hotel became so accustomed to seeing the family that a room was booked for a twelfth year automatically, even though the family hadn't requested one, Faul said...