Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dash of dry white vermouth. The exact recipe is ½ teaspoon of egg yolk put in a bowl with 1 tablespoon each of mustard and malt vinegar, plus a generous grinding of black pepper and, perhaps, a bit of finely minced garlic. I beat the mixture with a wire whisk while gradually adding 3 tablespoons of good olive oil. Last come 3 tablespoons of the vermouth...
...authority, recording names on Judaism's scroll of agony, describing the events and processes in the German gulag of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Belsen and other camps where 6 million perished. Elizabeth Taylor is surprisingly muted, reading the forgotten pleas of those who tried to reach through the barbed wire to a numb world...
...temperature will rise to 70° F or so one day, and the next, the wind will swivel around out of Canada to bring down a "blue Norther," a deep, dry blast of almost metaphysical cold. "There's nothing between here and the North Pole but a barbed-wire fence," they tell themselves in that Texas way that can lend defiant self-congratulation to the disastrous or the unavoidable. "And the fence blew down...
...Apache helicopter. Hughes says the attack helicopter's price, projected at $7.4 million apiece in 1978, has more than doubled, to $18.26 million, because of Army-ordered changes during nine years of development. Among them: substituting a laser-guided antitank missile for the original weapon, guided by wire, and adding a computerized sighting system for night use. Although there is $876.8 million for 48 Apaches in the 1983 requests, the Army is delaying production until the price issue is resolved...
...official exchange rate) per kg. A small canned ham had jumped from 200 to 600 zlotys ($2.55 to $7.75). A white-haired woman who had been hovering on the edge of the meat line turned away with only a loaf of brown bread in her wire basket. "I'm terrified," she confided. "I'm a widow on a pension. How am I going to live...