Word: unsnarling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kite was tangled in the power line behind his home outside Houston, and the impatient youngster tried to unsnarl the mess by poking at it with a rake. Zap, crackle, pop. The line short-circuited, burned through and fell, sparking and whipping, onto a chain link fence. That was a job for Superman -but he didn't show. Fortunately another stellar hero lived next door, and Scott Carpenter, 38, came to the rescue. While a second neighbor held the wires down with a board, the astronaut laid into the 120-volt cable with a wooden-handled ax, soon...
...done in the world, in so many fields of human activity. Year by year the world's unfinished business seems to grow greater. We want to send men to the moon, to nourish the underfed billions on our productive planet, to war against insects and disease, to unsnarl the tangled traffic in and around our cities, to draw fresh water from the sea and energy from the sun, to improve the human condition for all, and finally to establish both at home and abroad a more rational economic and political order...
...recommend or veto students for the C.L.G.S., and seemed reasonable enough: criteria for determining which seniors who abandoned their theses might be eligible would vary greatly from department to department. Essentially, decisions would be arbitrary, hence unfair. It was then that the majority argued: it is much better to unsnarl the whole administrative tangle by legislating automatic eligibility for students with the proper collection of grades. Yet the opposition was quick to point out that to lift the restriction setting the choice for C.L.G.S. or thesis-cum-tutorial an early deadline meant that seniors could drop the thesis...
...most meaningful and controversial proposal-to cut the floors out from under bulk commodity and farm-product rates. Prospects are much brighter for early enactment of the two proposals sure to prove popular with lobbyists and voters alike-scrapping the transportation tax and handing out millions to help unsnarl city traffic...
...Lexington lab have predicted the EDM will not only make possible vast cost savings in the engineering industries but also revolutionize computer technology. Among those who have come to inspect the EDM so far: urban developers looking for better ways to plan cities, railroaders seeking quicker ways to unsnarl traffic, aerospace engineers who hope for swifter and finer design work...