Word: sips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane will also be highly economical. Its engine will sip far less fuel than current models. Result: the 767, which will replace DC-9s as well as 707s and older 727s, will carry as many or more passengers for one-third less fuel...
...guests were not from Saudi Arabia's upper class; many appeared to be desert tribesmen. There was no ceremony at the table, and no distinction between rich and poor. A few guests finished quickly and left without so much as glancing at their host. Others stayed to sip coffee with the Prince in the palace corridor. There were, of course, no women present...
...Webb's oenology students, wine is not the "blushful Hippocrene" extolled by Keats but a complicated blend of ethyl alcohol, polyphenols and a hundred other compounds that must be subjected to decidedly unromantic analysis. At the moment, the department is trying to aid the time-honored sniff, sip and taste method of judging wines with a computer system that would analyze and rate mathematically the blend of compounds in wine...
Oceana's miners would go back to work if the Government seized the mines, but not under Taft-Hartley. At Connie Cook's Ashland Oil station, outside town, where striking miners sip coffee around an old space heater, William ("Fats") Stafford, 52, expressed a prevailing view. "I love this country and I had two sons serve in Viet Nam," he said. "I abide by the laws of this country, but not Taft-Hartley. That's slave labor, and there's no penalties in it against the companies...
...have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." Her style was difficult and sometimes, in its defiance of syntax and even grammar, infuriating. In 1955 Punch effectively parodied the Bowen manner: "She lit the sodden stub of last night's fag and took a sip of gin and meth to cut, as she'd have put it, the phlegm." Bowen knew that her style was odd and that it limited her popular appeal. But her manner of writing faithfully reflected the intense but indirect way she looked at the world. She approvingly described...