Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Milhous, was an Indiana Quaker whose family, celebrated in Jessamyn West's novel The Friendly Persuasion, moved to Whittier, Calif., at the turn of the century. His father, Francis Anthony Nixon, was an Ohio Methodist with only six years of formal education who left his job as a trolley-car operator in Columbus and drifted to Southern California in search of warmer weather. After Frank married Hannah in 1908, he was barely able to scrape by as a citrus-fruit farmer, grocer and gas-station owner. A neighbor described Frank Nixon as "brusque, loud, dogmatic...
...without the tension or the wit that marks Chabrol's best work. He adds, almost desperately, an echo of Greek tragedy in the plot's bleak resolution, but this only serves to make the film portentous. It lurches ahead in predictable little bursts of motion, like a trolley on old tracks...
...texture of the city so everybody's happy," Landreth says. But despite Pei's attempts to scale it down, according to a poll taken last month, about 69 per cent of the community is still opposed to having the combined library and museum proposal built at the old MBTA trolley barn...
...passengers on San Francisco's "Muni" (Municipal Railway) system, the two new vehicles will look-and ride-like ordinary electric trolley-buses. But when they begin rolling up and down the city's hills next year, transportation engineers everywhere will be eagerly watching their progress. The test vehicles will be pushed along part of their routes by a spinning flywheel...
Lockheed engineers have incorporated a new twist: regenerative braking. When the driver applies the brakes on San Francisco's steep hills, electrical switching will also turn the drive motor into a generator. In that mode, it will act as a drag, helping to slow the trolley, much as an auto engine does while the car is coasting downhill in gear. At the same time, it will be providing power for the flywheel's generator-motor. With this system, two-thirds of the energy needed to get up the hill should be recouped on the run down...