Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overwhelm it: in the ordinary bathtub, water will swirl out either way-usually in the same direction it was swirled in. Even if allowed to sit enough to stop the force of its inward swirl, the water's natural rotational movement will often be overcome by air currents, uneven heating, surface tension or irregularities in the shape of its container...
Jean Untermeyer displays a persevering but uneven personality, one dedicated to passion and sensibility but continually drawn to the comforting but humdrum virtues of a tidy housewife. Her prose reflects this dichotomy, ranging from the limpest of cliches to flights of intuitive perception, as in her lines about Sylvia Townsend Warner: "Yet all is not wit, though it springs out from her as pointed as a prow. There is wisdom, as final as a proverb...
Then he went to Washington, a more spacious classroom. Journalists, lawyers, and Presidents learned to read with care and trepidation the lengthy, percise black-ink memoranda he signed "F. F." and sent off in reams daily. His illness left the fine hand uneven, and made the writing a torture, but the notes still came, and they still were read, shuddered at, and cherished...
...this understandably rattled CBS White House Correspondent Dan Rather, to whom the "Hello, Nancy" refrain in all likelihood began to sound like the awkward bounce of a head rolling over uneven ground. (His.) On Inauguration Day, suspecting that Nancy and Lyndon had prearranged key spots for her to be in, Rather shadowed her like a spy who had been left out in the cold. When he would catch sight of an NBC camera crew, Rather would quickly deploy a CBS crew to the same place...
Among Enquirer news hands, there were serious doubts that the efficiency of a newspaper, which runs by fits and starts in concert with the uneven flow of the news, could ever be measured by time-and-motion studies...