Word: plumb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...youth, America is finding a new way to grow old. Far from fading away, the elderly seem to be brightening on the horizons of the mind, the family, the workplace, the community. Everywhere their role and presence are changing. Politicians rush to court the gray vote. Corporations and charities plumb a deeply skilled, reliable labor resource among the used-to-be and not-yet-ready-to-be retired. Madison Avenue prepares to tap a vast, long-ignored market. Where once the image of the elderly was of frailty, there are now energy and curiosity, courses to take, choirs to join...
...neck, capitalist cowboys driving Cadillacs," complains Rod Love, who works in the mayor's office. "We are the financial and technical capital of Western Canada." There is a stock exchange and a contingent of high-tech companies to back up that claim. There is even a mayor who acts plumb comfortable in pinstripes and silk ties...
...layer of evidence in a bid to uncover the full pattern of illegalities that had come to light in the $2.5 trillion U.S. stock market. There was even that ultimate Watergate touch: the disclosure that for weeks, perhaps months, conversations had been secretly tape-recorded in an effort to plumb the depths of the worst insider-trading scandal in U.S. history...
There were, I know, some strange wonderfulbrains at work in esoteric fields of Sanskrit,Eastern religious, Mayan anthropology and thelike. To my regret, I came into contact with toofew of them. They were little pockets ofexcellence in the Harvard tapestry and gave lustreto those of who did not fully plumb the depths ofwhat Harvard offered. I felt them out there,though, and I was proud of them and their work andwas glad to be among them...
...deliberated and replied, "More like a woof." On the Patriots' side, Runner Tony Collins was awash in sociological queries about his 15 siblings. Under pressure, he managed to name all eight brothers and six of seven sisters. Several of the Super Bowl's 2,500 journalists strayed off to plumb local angles. Guido Dagatta of Milan's Italia Uno TV network had an interest in New England Assistant Coach Dante Scarnecchia. "Milan?" mused Scarnecchia congenially. "Is that the capital of Italy?" Smoke began to come off Dagatta. "No, the capital is Rome. Maybe you have heard...