Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miracle chip has already made possible home computer systems that sell for less than $800?and prices will continue to fall. Many domestic devices that use electric power may be computerized. Eventually, the household computer will be as much a part of the home as the kitchen sink; it will program washing machines, burglar and fire alarms, sewing machines, a robot vacuum cleaner and a machine that will rinse and stack dirty dishes. When something goes wrong with an appliance, a question to the computer will elicit repair instructions ?in future generations, repairs will be made automatically. Energy costs...
...Kiley '81 outstroked his opponents by a full five seconds to land the 500-yd. freestyle, and later went on to sink the opposition in the 200-yd. version. Junior Eric Seder also proved a dominant double-winner, as he outraced Engineer Mark Huntziner by two seconds in the 200-yd. backstroke, and then sprinted to victory in the 100-yd. back...
...also smothers its beat in interminable bouts of rhetoric. If a character says, "We are all in this together," rest assured you have not heard the line for the last time. He can achieve piercing moments of self-revelation, only to resort to vaudevillian bits of bawdry or sink into bathos...
When Shakespeare called England "this royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle," he was merely stating the facts. For more than 900 years British monarchs have bought, begged, borrowed and stolen enough treasure to sink the island: castles, palaces, crowns and jewels, fabulous bric-a-brac, artistic masterpieces beyond prodigality...
...certainty that there will be more than 1,700 "nickel-and-dime" disasters. The public, she laments, seems unconcerned. "The trade-off is almost made - a viable coast for the plunge offshore, for a few more moments of twilight before the oil lamp goes out, for prolonging the ocean-sink concept until some version of Black Mayonnaise hits us in the face, the nostrils...