Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants to flee, like Gauguin to the South Seas, but erstwhile bankers of 45 who desert their Parisian families and become great painters are one of a kind. To blunt the pain of reality, he slips a whisky bottle into his desk and nips at it. (Alcoholism climbs a steep 50% in the 40-60 group over ages 30-39.) His medicine cabinet begins to look like a pharmaceutical display, and he retreats into hypochondria. Indeed, the sense of being straitjacketed by fate may contribute sizably to the cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary attacks that increasingly fell middle-agers...
Suddenly the steep plummeting dive changed to a semblance of flight. Under control of Veteran NASA Test Pilot Milton Thompson, the experimental M2-F2 "lifting body" demonstrated an uncanny ability to maneuver. Wingless and powerless, the 21-ton, 22-ft.-long craft swung through two 90° turns as it dropped through its rapid descent. At the last moment it lifted its nose, lowered its tricycle landing gear and streaked to a spectacular 200-m.p.h. landing on the flatbed of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base. By successfully executing its unusual 217-second flight, the M2-F2 pointed...
Another problem which students presented to Mrs. Bunting is the width of the steep, wooden stairs: 31 inches. One Cliffie commented that she "would not ask any friend of mine to risk his life carrying anything downstairs that weighed more than ten pounds." Mrs. Bunting tentatively offered to have College workmen or professional movers move everyone out, but another student noted that "anyone carrying things down those stairs is bound to get killed, and Radcliffe workmen have as much right to live...
...prospectors who find that price too steep, the Survey scientists are already developing a hand-held "baby snooper" that is expected to cost about $3,000. It will shoot low-energy X rays at the ground, causing silver on the surface to fluoresce, and will measure the fluorescence on a scintillation counter. Senftle sees the baby snooper as the silver equivalent of the inexpensive Geiger counter, which leads uranium prospectors directly to their quarry...
That was too steep a price for losers to ask, even at the going cost of consensus. Thus ended the 21-year partnership...