Word: plumb
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...horizontal latticework of pipes is constructed about ten feet above the ground to be excavated. Hanging plumb lines from this metal checkerboard, the archaeologist marks the ground off into orderly squares, two meters on a side. As objects are uncovered, he records their position relative to this grid system...
...this summer, almost all the prisoners were gone, and, in response to a great, government-sponsored publicity campaign, masses of tourists arrived (15,000 so far this year). Ustica has few entertainments to offer them-not even movies-but it has fish-rich waters, deep blue grottoes to plumb, and long stretches of land to walk. Thoroughly pleased with the setting, the week-long International Underwater Convention stayed submerged long enough to let 24 spearsmen from seven countries compete for the underwater fishing prize, surfaced to present its annual "Golden Trident" awards to such notables as Dr. Jacques Piccard...
...second half of the program was devoted to a "composition" by La Monte Young. It was simple. Almost soundlessly two men drew a line with two plumb bobs, walked along it, and started all over again--for over half an hour. That was all. Young does not call such proceedings music, but rather "art" in general. In his own terms, he succeeded. The act fascinated the audience, drew them to find out what was going on, to jeer, argue and go away entertained and interested. It did indeed make a mockery of our formalistic nations of what "belongs...
...Bedroom, by P. G. Wodehouse. Yet another out-of-plumb castle in the air, designed by the old master-this one inhabited by a tiddly young aristocrat named Freddy Widgeon, and besieged by a villain named Oofy Prosser...
...Bedroom, by P. G. Wodehouse. Yet another out-of-plumb castle in the air, designed by the old master, this one inhabited by a tiddly young aristoclot named Freddy Widgeon, and besieged by a villain named Oofy Prosser...