Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stuart Symington (D-Mo) urged Congress yesterday to halt proliferation of what he calls the "Kissinger syndrome"-a web of White House panels, groups and councils mastered by Henry Kissinger...
Gibson hits his peak as the star of Night Letters, a telephone participation show. Audience feedback creates a web of involvement and expands radio to almost mythic proportions. Spinning his dials and monitoring the tape delay device that censors callers' obscenities, Gibson is a McLuhan obfuscation made flesh-a benevolent witch doctor in an electronic village of the lonely, the sick and screwed...
...Manhattan watercolors of 1911-13, with their thrust, chop and bustle of tower, facade and street, are a peculiarly American reaction to that delight in the tempos of urban life that, at the same moment, had seized the Cubists in Paris and the Futurists in Italy. It was a web of movement, great and small, that he would pursue for the rest of his career, and he described it with his usual laconic concreteness. "In life all things come under the magnetic influence of other things-the bigger assert themselves strongly-the smaller not so much but they still assert...
...trail is like a 4,000-mile spider web, a tangled maze of routes ranging from yard-wide footpaths to short sections of gravel-paved highway two lanes wide. The system threads westward out of three North Vietnamese passes (the Mu Gia, Ban Karai and Ban Raving), which cut through the Annamese mountains, then loops south and east for 200 miles, reaching a width of 50 miles at some points. Studded with lumpy hillocks, the trail network cuts through the precipitous terrain and dense, triple-canopied jungle growth...
...question that has puzzled many spectators at Harvard contests is the large number of managers. This over-abundance is most grossly obvious around the sidelines at football games. The managers said that each one did have a necessary job, part of the intricate web that keeps 40 players on the field...