Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything aboard the ship is archaic: on windless days, the steel-hulled Eagle, built in 1936, vibrates with the hum of her 728-h.p. diesel engine. Power winches, not able-bodied seamen, crank the windlass to hoist anchor. In the communications shack, the latest electronic gear helps plot the ship's position. On the foremast, a slowly rotating radar scanner keeps an electronic...
Time capsules are as popular now as they were on July 4, 1876. In Seward, Neb., a discount hardware store owner named Harold Davisson last year interred a 1975 Chevrolet in a crypt of concrete and steel. This year he is adding a blue Kawasaki motorcycle. Also in the vault are a Teflon frying pan, a bolt of polyester fabric, a zipper, a pair of bikini panties and a man's aquamarine leisure suit...
...acres). He also bought additional slaves to carry out his experiments in growing wheat, barley, hemp and flax, in building fisheries and even in trying to breed buffaloes as beasts of burden. Enjoying his rewards, Washington ordered only the best of carriages from London "in the newest taste, with steel springs, green unless any other color is more in vogue." His favorite sport: fox hunting. His favorite delicacies: oysters, watermelons, Madeira wine...
...even visits Westminster.) The merchants and manufacturers who depended on the ?4 million American trade were earlier among the most influential opponents of the war, but so far the hostilities have done relatively little harm, since British businessmen have found new customers in Russia, Spain and Italy for Birmingham steel, Manchester cotton and Yorkshire woolens. They seem largely unaware of Whig estimates that the fighting will cost roughly ?10 million a year (with the national debt already something like ?130 million). As for the press, with a combined readership of perhaps 400,000 out of a population of 8.7 million...
...Steel I say: ridders, buy dis book! For why? Becawss of me, Kaplan. I am foist-cless student, A number vun. I make many mistakes, netchurel. But my mistakes make as moch sanse as English. Alvays Kaplan got rizzons, so mebbe is type of ginius. Iven Mr. Pockheel admits. Vhy alse he kips me all to himsalf an' is never permodink me to higher grate...