Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is certainly possible, but this expert found it hard to believe. Rather, he suggested, the hum sounds like "what happens frequently when amateurs try to tinker with a tape." The most likely circumstance, he contended, is that "the hum was recorded when someone attempted to record over the original conversation or tried to erase it." While that was under way, the hum could have been picked up from nearby cords carrying alternating current, such as those to a desk lamp, according to this expert...
...processes of photography. He has learned both to add and to elaborate on the basic method to increase the power of his images. In the photogravure I mentioned earlier, for example, the mysticism in the background comes almost accidentally from the developing procedure. But Ron McNeil, in his 1970 "Tinker's Child," extends this interaction of subject matter and technique. By hand wiping his etched plate before printing it, McNeil strengthens the mystical streaks into strong forms that echo the haunting quality of the child's face...
...Before that promise faded again for a while, Joan decided Joe would be home before Christmas. She called the kids together, and after "a conference" they all agreed. Only one present would be bought, "a toolbox with lug wrenches, torque wrenches and all the stuff a person needs to tinker with cars-Joe's favorite pastime...
...unorthodox way of looking at the world that he first got the idea of catnaps from watching a dog. In his familiar role as a minister of progress from the 21 st century and "publicist for the universe," Fuller is not only a generalist in the best American twinker-tinker tradition, he is the human equivalent of Telstar-intercepting the music of the spheres and vectoring it down to earth with an enthusiasm just this side of Revelation. "I am no genius," Fuller likes to say, "but I am a terrific package of experience...
Nebraska's Johnny Rodgers, who accounted for five touchdowns in the Cornhuskers' 40-6 rout of Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl, more than merits his Heisman Trophy. U.S.C., which savaged Ohio State 42-17 in the Rose Bowl, is undeniably No. 1. Oklahoma Freshman Tinker Owens, who caught one scoring pass and set up another in the Sooners' 14-0 shutout of Penn State in the Sugar Bowl, could make home-town fans forget Big Brother Steve, the 1969 Heisman Trophy winner. And Alabama, which lost to Texas 17-13 in the Cotton Bowl, was swindled...