Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June increase in the Consumer Price Index was a shade smaller than the May rise, but it was still a full 1%, enough to push inflation for the first half of 1979 to a compound annual rate of 13.2%, more than twice the pace that prevailed when Carter was elected in November...
People seeking advice from NASA on how to minimize their own risks from Skylab got little help. The agency suggested that one might be a shade safer underground than on the surface, but it warned that the very act of, say, taking a car to get to an underground shelter might increase the danger?because the chance of getting hurt in a car accident is greater than the risk from Skylab. As a general rule, space experts suggested, "Do nothing...
...second wing jammed in a retracted position. The craft both overheated in orbit and was dangerously underpowered. But in the space age's first salvage mission, on May 25, 1973, Astronauts Charles ("Pete") Conrad Jr. and Joseph Kerwin entered the overheated space lab and rigged a makeshift umbrella to shade the vehicle's bald spot, then spent a harrowing four hours outside the stricken craft freeing the stuck wing. During a second manned mission, on July 28,1973, the lab's thrusters sprang leaks?and a crash program to prepare a vehicle to rescue the three astronauts was undertaken...
Owner Sherwood Costen, 66, a shy retired municipal employee from Point Pleasant, W. Va., raised his winner and her four sisters as wild birds. While less savvy contestants carried their fowl around feet first in the hot sun, Costen cradled Lola in the shade of a thick maple...
That squeamishness only intensified during the Victorian era, blighting the whole form for the next 120 years. "In every picture there should be shade as well as light," said Boswell. The Victorians, however, wanted, or claimed they wanted, to hear only good about their heroes. The historian Thomas Carlyle was an exception; he instructed his own biographer, James Anthony Froude, to put down the truth about him. But when he died and Froude did just that, telling how sour, self-centered and occasionally violent the great man really was, half of England denounced Froude as a scoundrel and a traitor...