Word: workman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ship propellers and shafts around the Pearl Harbor shipyard. NBC has bought air bearings to shift heavy bleachers around TV studios, and several manufacturers are already using them to move heavy equipment and products across factory floors. Air bearings placed under a one-ton machine, for example, enable a workman to move it across a smooth surface with a push of less than 15 Ibs. Another manufacturer, Airfloat Corp. of Decatur, Ill., has designed air bearings for an eleven-ton concrete radiation shielding door at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and for easily maneuverable dental chairs...
...invariably of humble birth. He may be called the Demon Lover. In Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night, he is a Spanish workman on the run for killing his wife and her lover; he is rescued by the heroine in dramatic circumstances and fondly described as "her miracle, the storm murderer." In Moderate Cantabile, he is a French workman, again mysteriously connected with a recent murder, again with a sinister power over the heroine, who is frequently disturbed by "the silent agony of her loins." In L'Amante Anglaise, he turns up as the woodcutter Alfonso-an Italian this...
True to Type. All over Paris, there were scenes reminiscent of the street battles of the Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871. On the Boulevard St. Germain, a workman dressed in blue overalls attacked the pavement with a heavy, pointed bar in an attempt to free the first paving stone, which would liberate the others. As soon as he had succeeded, a grandmotherly woman took her place in a line of Parisians that quickly formed to pass the stones to others who were building a barricade. On the Boulevard St. Michel, a student sat atop the barricade...
...almost changed his mind in 1954 when, after five years with small Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., he went for a job interview at Xerox (then Haloid). "It wasn't very impressive," McColough recalls. "I went up to see one of the vice presidents and he had a workman's black lunch pail on his desk and his bookshelf was a painted orange crate." Then he listened to Wilson's spiel about xerography. "It was all promise and no performance," McColough says, "but I was taken with the opportunities...
...communications system. The HAL computers cannot make mistakes and a confirmation of the error would necessitate disconnection. At this point the balance shifts again: Bowman asks HAL to explain his mistake and HAL denies it, attributing it to "human error"; we are reminded of the maxim, "a bad workman blames his tools," and realize HAL is acting from a distinctly human point-of-view in trying to cover up his error...