Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DREARIEST WAVE OF THE FUTURE The domestically produced, vacuum-sealed bags that hold appetizers and main courses and are available at Bloomingdale's in New York City and have more recently been introduced at Marshall Field's in Chicago leave almost everything to be desired in flavor and texture. Based on tastings of a dozen or so choices (omelet creole, lobster bisque, ravioli with snails, poached salmon and pork with apricots), these generally expensive creations, with main courses from $2.25 for pasta to $12.90 for veal, are a cut above airline food...
...omission the President has become a silent participant in the scandal, as past and present aides flounder about contradicting one another or refusing to divulge what they know. As a result, there are still as many unanswered questions as there were seven weeks ago. As the crisis festers, a vacuum is developing within the Administration. A replacement may have to be found for Casey. Spokesman Larry Speakes and Cabinet Secretary Al Kingon are leaving. Domestic Policy Adviser Jack Svahn has departed. If Regan goes, so will most of his assistants. Staffers are wondering who will replace these...
...believe he wrote it. Look, we all know there's the dust of mediocrity covering everything, just as there was in 1886 or 1786--even more, no vacuum cleaners then. That's where we come in, the young writers of the world. We must make our words literary vacuum cleaners to suck the dust of mediocrity into the inimitable vortices of our prose. Didn't Churchill say something about dust: `we shall clear it on the land, we shall clear it on the beaches'--well, it'd be difficult to clear it on the beaches....But clear that dust...
...sacred time of the baseball playoffs, and you will remain eligible to talk in 10-sec. bursts or more during Monday-night football. You will cease all jokes about how I wake up in the middle of the night smelling dust, and you will learn how to work the vacuum and the toaster...
Controlling the needle's height is a minute electric current that should not flow at all, according to classical physics. Reason: there is nothing to conduct electrons, the carriers of electric current, across the insulating vacuum that separates needle from surface. But modern quantum theory says that a few electrons will jump anyway. Indeed they do, and since the number that jump depends on the size of the gap, the microscope's circuitry can continuously readjust the needle's height by monitoring the amount of current flowing between its tip and the object. The device "is completely new," said...