Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Myself (CBS, Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) offers a sketchy biography of Walt Whitman, which is really an excuse to hear a well-selected anthology of his poetry. Poetry in any form is rare on commercial television, and just hearing Whitman well read in a Carl Sandburg singsong by Rip Torn is reason enough for gratitude. But Jan Hartman's script confronts Whitman's homosexuality with good bluntness, and Torn, a gutsy actor who has long deserved better of his trade than he usually receives, plays the populist bard instead of embalming him. There is something fine and wild...
Unless the fishing-rights dispute is resolved, Iceland might withdraw from NATO and rip up bilateral agreements with Washington that allow the U.S. to maintain a naval airbase at Keflavik. The base is a key NATO installation; its facilities include long-range aircraft, radar, ICBM warning and tracking systems and ELINT (electronic intelligence) units. U.S. surveillance aircraft fly from Keflavik to monitor Soviet surface and submarine traffic in the North Atlantic...
...ones, miners no longer loosen the coal with explosives and pry it from the seam with pickaxes; they work continuous mining machines that cost $200,000 apiece and look like a cross between a chain saw and a lobster. The machines nose up to the coal vein and rip out ten tons of coal a minute; then their clawlike arms sweep the coal onto conveyor belts. The most efficient underground mines have "longwall" machines that continuously shear the coal vein, much as a delicatessen slicer cuts salami...
Subcommittee Chairman Senator Frank Moss, a Democrat from Utah, agrees that these and other measures are urgently needed. Says he: "This is a horrible commentary on our medical delivery system. If this many weaknesses show up in Medicaid, the rip-off will be infinitely larger with national health insurance...
...Times Editorial Page Director Anthony Day crusades against the repeated misuse of certain words (verbally for orally or vice versa, hopefully for one hopes) but goes along with some neologisms. "Part of what keeps a language alive is its constant acceptance of new words and phrases," says Day, citing rip-off as an example...