Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March 15), a demonstrator was gunned down by the Guardia Civil; a furious crowd forced the guardsmen to retreat to their headquarters. In Tarragona, a worker fell from a roof to his death during a clash with police. Shipyard workers even struck in Franco's birthplace. But a quieter event of considerable political significance occurred last week in Madrid, where nine military officers were found guilty of sedition...
...eaten for lunch. Most of the other women in the room stared into mirrors, ratting hair, applying pancake, and blowing up balloons in the empty stretches of time, all over a continual underbuzz of conversation. Three men on the far side of a partition went through a similar, if quieter process. One man paced between the two make-shift rooms, alternately blowing up a green balloon and giving instructions. Every ten minutes or so he yelled out a Cape-Canavral countdown...
...quieter level of chance taking, Farewell to Manzanar (NBC, Thursday, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) deserves respect too. It is a semidocumentary drama about the internment of our Japanese citizenry during World War II. It gives a good general picture of how the internees turned a collection of ill-constructed barracks at Manzanar into something resembling a community, of the conflicts between those who counseled open rebellion against their absurd imprisonment and those who advised patience. The Spirit at Manzanar became a dignified resistance in which individuality was not sacrificed to the survivor's ethic. The story, in which a family...
...Britain and France, two allies that had sunk $2.8 billion into the Concorde. Further, Coleman claimed that turning down the Concorde "may well be condemning for all time or delaying for decades what might be a very significant technological advance for mankind." Second-generation Concordes, he said, could be quieter and less harmful to the environment...
Meanwhile, the planemakers are counting on military orders to speed development of new wing shapes and quieter, more powerful engines, both of which might eventually lead to improvements in commercial planes. An order for cargo transports that has pitted McDonnell Douglas YC-15 against Boeing's YC-14 could have that effect. The manufacturers are also trying to adapt existing jetliners to new uses. Boeing has already developed a smaller version of its original jumbo jet called the 7475P. It will carry 100 fewer passengers (capacity: 280 seats), burn 10% less fuel and fly much faster than its parent...