Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staple Eskimo food, keeps on growing for 18 years. Migratory birds?lesser Canada geese, eider ducks, American pintails, whistling swans, Brant geese?must time their breeding to the day. If winter is unusually long, a whole species may achieve zero population growth because it lacks time to hatch and rear its young before the ice begins to return in late August...
...that Karl had his biggest brainstorm: a revolutionary new rear-view mirror for automobiles. "Suddenly I got the idea, what a great thing to see over the top of the car instead of having to see through all those heads and seats and blind spots inside the car. I thought, 'Gee whiz, Karl, here's opportunity knocking at the back door, success. Invent over-the-top rear vision and make money fast...
...began to develop his mirror full time. The principle was simple: a panoramic periscope. A system of three mirrors, each as wide as the car, mounted in the roof above and inside the windshield. The top mirror juts four inches above the roof, catches an unobstructed view to the rear and sides, and then transmits it via the other two mirrors down to the driver...
...amazed when the committee refused. The following year, however, Karl managed to get on the witness list for the House hearings and drove his Corvette all the way to Washington. On the way he was stopped several times by police, because his Corvette has no rear window, the better to demonstrate the virtues of his device. Once a highway patrolman drew his gun on Karl and searched the car, explaining that cars without rear windows generally had machine guns in the back. At the hearings, Karl testified about his mirror, but no one seemed to listen...
...Matisse himself was a violinist. He took an odd pride in the notion that if his painting eye failed, he could support his family by fiddling on the streets of Paris. The same violin in Music appears again, in precisely the same pose except now seen from the rear, in an amusing portrait that Matisse painted in Nice-maybe of himself at his hotel window, practicing. Friends assert that the hotel banished Matisse to a remote back room so that his playing would not torture other guests...