Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here is Clara Reeve, a sober send-up of the Victorian three-decker, as ingenious as an embezzlement scheme -and incidentally an astringent comment on the predicament of being female. As a little girl, Clara is orphaned, and raised in the forbidding London home of a pious uncle. When she is so light-minded as to laugh aloud at the antics of a bird in the garden, he whips her neck with a watch chain. The child accurately notes that it was indeed the custom to birch girls on the bared portions of their anatomies, but adds that nevertheless...
...well for a while. Now, however, a growing number of Europeans are concluding that floating rates have been a failure. The harshest critic has been France, which last week ceased to allow the franc to float freely against all other money. Instead, it will rejoin a European fixed-rate scheme known as the snake-that ties the values of seven currencies to each other...
...country at sea level, so as to give the traveler an idea of the pitch of the land. It was impractical, I replied, Kids would probably chuck pennies down on the cars--like from on top of the Empire State Building--causing certain havoc. Fred agreed and abandoned his scheme, but the further we drove, the more the language seemed pregnant with his notion. The road grew from the soil, was entrenched in it and ever spawned by it. The countryside was a vast shoulder to run on to when fatigue became insistent, and the miles only brought darkness...
...Doxiadis Associates, which eventually opened branches in eleven countries, including one in Washington, D.C., and employed a huge staff of 700 people. Plans churned off his drafting tables. Among them: the design of Pakistan's new capital of Islamabad, housing studies for Iraq, Ghana, Brazil and a regional scheme of new towns and transportation corridors in South America's five-nation River Plate Basin. In the U.S., he laid out a 2,500-acre urban-renewal project in Philadelphia. As part of a 1965 projection of greater Detroit's future growth-commissioned by the Detroit Edison...
...stops, the water could be allowed to cascade down through hydraulic turbines. Similarly, the energy from flywheels, spun up to a high speed when windmills are working, could be used to run electrical generators when the wind ebbs. University of Massachusetts Engineer William Heronemus has an even more imaginative scheme: he would use the windmill's electrical output to break down water molecules into their component atoms of hydrogen and oxygen. The highly combustible hydrogen gas could then be used as a fuel to power stand-by generators...