Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thanksgiving feast of pork-fried cabbage. And on one cold evening DeVoss accompanied a missionary into a thatch-roofed house and heard him address a dozen squatting men until early morning. Only when DeVoss was leaving did he discover that he had been sitting beneath a fetish shelf of bat wings and chicken feathers in the home of the village's demon priest. Indeed, the story threw many TIME correspondents into unsettling situations. After spending five weeks in Central and South America, sidestepping bushmasters, vampire bats, tarantulas and poisonous caterpillars, New York Correspondent James Wilde began to absorb some...
...Short Shelf of Tall Tales Fifteen volumes appeal to the senses of humor and wonder
...attach the four cuffs and finally to snap in the Jarvik-7. The device was primed with blood, but DeVries was dissatisfied with its performance. He resutured the connectors and tried again. Still no good. Finally DeVries decided to install a second left ventricle "that we had on the shelf. It worked beautifully." Clark's blood pressure slowly rose to a normal 119/75, compared with a feeble 85/40 before surgery...
Thanks to Gary, a communications major from Penn State, Rob, 23, now lies in his bedroom in Hopewell Township, Pa., at the heart of one of the most sophisticated computer control and communications centers in the U.S. It is a remarkable patchwork of off-the-shelf electronics parts, including a desktop computer, a remote-control video recorder, a scattering of video games and pinball machines, a conference-type telephone system and a backyard antenna big enough to broadcast network-quality television signals. All of it was pieced together during the past five years by Gary and Ted Ruscitti...
...there any comfort for consumers who now hesitate to pick any sort of product off a grocery or drugstore shelf? Psychologist Schueneman, who predicted the wave of copycat tamperings, provides a kind of backhand reassurance. He says, "I think it will be short-lived." His reasoning: before long, copycat tamperings will become so common that they will no longer provide thrill seekers with the excitement that they crave...