Word: spills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy had quietly got rid of Bit of Irish, the bay gelding that tossed her over a split-rail fence last November. Though the indefatigable First Lady has been expertly following the Piedmont Foxhounds all winter on two other steeds, she never hunted Bit of Irish again after her spill, and five weeks ago sold the unchivalrous thoroughbred for some $3,000 to Russell Arundel, chairman of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Long Island...
...knock over your water glass, don't say 'Oops.' Right the glass and keep talking to your partner. But if you spill the water on your partner's dress, offer her your napkin and say you're sorry. Don't start mopping her. It might be misunderstood...
...list of minor inconveniences in packaging is endless: scouring-powder lids that rust, cylindrical salt and oatmeal containers that take up unnecessary room; jars too hard to open; vacuum lids impossible to close...toothpaste caps that get lost; bags of flour that invariably spill; bread that goes stale because of skimpywrapping...
...incoming flights, a conveyor moving at 500 feet per minute sweeps bags along the belt to the arrival room, where two dumping carts spill luggage to be claimed. The passenger, unless he is on fire, cannot beat his bag to the claim area...
Justice Laurance Hyde of the Missouri Supreme Court pleaded that each state give its highest judge sweeping power to shift judges where they are needed, lay down tough rules aimed at speeding procedure. Computers were demonstrated that could store up all relevant precedents in a given field of law, spill out the information at 600 lines a minute, saving not only countless hours but what one lawyer termed "thousands of dollars in salaries for law clerks and secretaries." New York's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, urged a federal system of public defenders...