Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...able to play the cartridges at any hour of the day or night and, if they have the right equipment, to replay a sequence or freeze the action in order to study Palmer's back swing or tend to a squalling baby. Because the signal goes by wire to the TV set, the picture reproduction will be far sharper than on today's over-the-air video...
...pushing and shoving, Miss James should have seen the two wire-service combatants when they accompanied President Nixon on a yacht ride in California last summer. Finding only one ship-to-shore phone available, they almost came to blows as they wrestled to make the first call. That sight might have made even Princess Anne smile...
Next came the creation of a wild-game preserve. Wire fences were set up to isolate the 51 lions and a pack of hyenas. Other, less aggressive animals-ostriches, rhinoceroses, elephants and zebras -were simply set loose to live together...
...BARBED wire is going up in lovely Phnom-Penh. Like tentacles from the war ravaging the countryside, the prickly wire now surrounds most important government buildings. Sandbag bunkers, usually occupied by young boys or girls proudly fingering loaded U.S. carbines, dot the streets. Cambodian officers strut about with pistols hoistered on their hips...
...military checkpoints throughout the city's deserted streets. Then, at the first sign of light, the soldiers picked up work where they had left off the afternoon before: at the airport, around banks and government buildings, and on major street corners, they unrolled coils of American-made barbed wire and stacked up new walls of sandbags. Cambodia's capital was girding for attack...