Word: socket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...logic of this divestiture made sense initially but started to break down because of technological innovation known as the "convergence of modes." Essentially, engineers have devised ways of digitally transporting telecommunications ranging from letters to pictures to sounds on a single set of wires. This means that one socket could carry all this electronic information to the home. And different players ranging from cable television companies to the Baby Bells have jockeyed for position to be the first players to complete this "rewiring" in local markets...
Burnham says he was beaten so severely that itrequired surgery to fix a blow-out fracture to hisleft eye socket...
Knowing this story, I still went to UHS last week. I was running down the stairs and I must have placed my right foot the wrong way because my knee popped in and out of its socket and I lost my balance and fell to the bottom of the stairs...
...light, and thus more radiance. Yet it is difficult to overlook the man who carries this light. He stands in a relaxed position, head bent downward as if contemplating his costume of lights. His head directs attention towards the ground where the wires become one, flowing into a socket and then in to the corner of the photograph. The man in the picture is an instrument in the circuit; he provides the framework and carries the wires to light the tiny bulbs. While simultaneously, the light creates him; he would not be visible without the illumination...
...Artful Dodger to the Fagin of Bucks County. After his arrest (and before fleeing), Wills told the FBI that he learned much of the craft as a teenager from John Palamarchuk, a 68-year-old former body-shop owner known to law enforcement as "One-Eyed." (His right eye socket, filled with a plastic orb, is barely open.) Wills, who did not own a driver's license, sometimes enlisted his mentor to rent the trucks that hauled his booty. Palamarchuk, who has never served time despite nine arrests, was happy to oblige. Even today, after his star student's fall...