Word: teller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slowly, the members filed up the aisles to cast their votes, putting green ballots against the SST funding into a box beside Teller Yates, red votes to keep the plane alive into a box supervised by a pro-SST teller, California Democrat John McFall. The green line looked longer, and Yates, a normally gregarious man whose face was furrowed with fatigue from the long fight, broke into a grin. "Green cards here," he shouted happily, as he saw that victory was his. The vote was announced as 217 to 203 against the plane. In the mandatory final vote the funds...
...Boston University coed last week in praise of her cape. For any, all or none of her reasons, cape sales, round the country are still soaring. Both Filene's and Jordan Marsh in Boston report a swirl of business, as do Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, Bonwit Teller and Saks Fifth Avenue, which had a particularly hot run on monks' capes. In Los Angeles, where even the ladies who sell maps to movie stars' homes have been cloaked up for years, boutiques are having trouble keeping capes in stock. A favorite is St. Laurent...
Given the lack of operating experience and their novelty, why aren't reactors built underground as in Sweden and Switzerland? This has been advocated for many years by Dr. Edward Teller (proverbial father of the H-bomb) and others in this country. The reason is simple. As has been proven in Britain, which generates four times as much electricity from fission as the U. S., nuclear reactors are simply more costly than other forms of power. Underground construction would be prohibitively expensive...
...going to end. Everyone had agreed to stop arguing. There was almost a visible sigh of relief. The lady in makeup began an elaborate speech of thanks to Dr. Teller. She patted his arm and smiled at him dewily through false eyelashes. "There , that wasn't so bad, was it?" Old-World courtesies sputtered back in reply. She gave him a loud kiss on the check. He winced...
...lady in makeup joined an informal de-briefing afterwards with the students, while Tom Ward slouched in the corner, unsmiling and talking in a low voice with his friends. The lady was sentimental and nodded towards Tom. "Teller says that boy's full of venom, but I think he's full of heartbreak. Think of the records he listens to, the heartbreak he's had. Think of what that boy's been through! Teller will never understand that...