Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page, allowing the eyes to trigger the mind directly and eliminating the necessity of saying, hearing or thinking the sound of words." Mrs. Wood thinks most people are "sub-vocalizers" or inward lip-readers. Just as a pilot is aware of many things at once, her students learn to steep themselves in a book's total mood and meaning. "You see more than a single detail in a picture," she explains. "You see the whole thing...
High in the Rocky Mountains, a giant tractor eased a six-room house along a steep, narrow road. As workmen loaded another house onto a huge steel trailer, a foreman shouted to the anxious bystanders, "Don't you worry, folks, the coffee you left behind will be a bit cooler when it gets there, but not a drop will be spilled...
...three days the crowd down below watched the two men who seemed as small as flyspecks on a steep, 1,000-ft. wall of crumbling granite. It was an attempt to conquer one of the last great unsealed climbs in the U.S.; see SPORT, Mounting the Diamond...
...Chamber of Deputies dramatically waving the blood-smeared shirt of Socialist Deputy Gianguido Borghese, who had been hurt in the cavalry charge. "Assassins!" shouted the Communists, and the chamber quickly became a free-for-all. Communists and Christian Democrats knocked aside ushers, grappled along the chamber's steep aisles. Only after hours of battling was order restored...
Real estate is costly in the mountain valley that houses Caracas, but the hill called La Roca Tarpeya, considered too steep for building sites, long stood barren right in the middle of town. Now an ambitious young builder is covering the rock with a cap of concrete and glass to form a spiraling, 25-acre commercial area worth $30 million. Architect Jorge Romero Gutiérrez, 36, calls his project "the helicoid," or spiral. In the two years that construction has been under way, Romero has spent $16.5 million, and last week the helicoid was 60% finished...