Word: seismicly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...full commercial development after 18 years; reduce congressional control over the designation of wilderness areas; and grant oil and mining companies immediate access to wilderness areas to conduct potentially environment-disturbing probes. The environmentalists were especially exercised over a provision that would permit "sampling conducted by helicopter" and "seismic surveys." The proposal, concluded the Wilderness Society's Gordon Roberts, would allow "oil companies to use explosives in search of oil or gas resources, as long as they reach the site by helicopter...
...sign a lease on the property he wanted most, the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He had to settle for an appointment as Vice President in the Ford Administration, where he glumly complained, "I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes." His own death in 1979 caused some seismic waves. At 70, he suffered a late-night heart attack while in the company of a young woman employee whom Joseph Persico describes as "a 20th century Rubens wearing aviator's glasses...
Trailing a Promethean plume of fire and smoke, the entire 18-story-high, 4.5 million-lb. package thundered off the pad, shaking the earth for miles around, a seismic jolt greater even than the tremors from the mighty Saturn rockets that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon. From the hundreds of thousands of spectators at the Kennedy Space Center came encouraging shouts: "Go, man, go!" "Smooth sailing, baby!" "Fly like an eagle!" "Oh my god, what a show...
...discoveries in the so-called Austin chalk, a complex geological stratum that lies between Houston and Austin. Oilmen have long suspected that the area held many "sweet pots" of oil and natural gas, but they always lacked the incentive and technology to find them. Now better seismic analysis and the skyrocketing price of crude have made it profitable to search out smaller deposits. Hamlets in the area like Old Dime Box and La Grange have turned into boomtowns. In Giddings, the epicenter of the oilfield, houses that rented for $75 a month now go for $300, and one local entrepreneur...
...Boys' lyrics and their seismic live shows, which feature goofy choreography and express-train velocity, are reminiscent of the Coasters, the great clown princes of '50s R & R. Their music, however, owes more to the hipster rhythms of Sly Stone and the blistering aggression of the punks. "People assume the way a black group would go is rhythm and blues," Kevin O'Neal reflects. "But rock 'n' roll has more avenues and more freedom. It is about rebellion and change." Adds Brian: "In one sense, our album acknowledges the white influence on black music...