Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...security does not mean sanguinity. Valerie is still making her federal and local protests. "When Nixon fired Cox," she remembers, "I fired off a beauty of a telegram, and when Ford pardoned Nixon, I sat up half the night composing a wire about how ashamed he made me feel to be an American. The White House knows...
...deftly worded wire to Goldberg, Rocky apologized, accepted "full responsibility for the whole regrettable episode" and termed it "utterly alien to and incompatible with the standards I have always tried to observe in my political life." Rockefeller said that he should have stopped the book project as soon as he learned about it but did not say when that...
...legacy continues. A simple fumble could decide today's contest, and along with it may go an entire season. But that's the way all crucial games go. Down to the wire...
Precise Images. Most of Codex Madrid I is filled with exquisitely fine engineering drawings: designs for self-releasing hoist grapnels, frictionless bearings, clock escapements, wire-making machines, worm drives and so on. For Leonardo, the drawn image was more precise than the written. One of the striking things about the machines in the Madrid notebooks is how they prefigure the future history of formal engineering draftsmanship without becoming schematic diagrams. They are conceptions rather than blueprints, but conceptions that one could take to a factory and have built tomorrow. More over, they are conceived as a series...
Last month was one of those Septembers that a baseball commissioner dreams about. Three of the four division races were up in the air until the last week of the season and two of those races came down to the wire before being decided in the last few games...