Word: wrack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conditioning. A backlog of 200,000 acquisitions in storage may take two decades to process fully. There are only 19 guards for five stories of two block-lengths each. Says veteran Library Official Walter Zervas: "If ever there was a treasure house that's going to wrack and ruin, it's this...
...Scotland now has the economic power to survive on its own. Other movements have been dampened by the obvious advantages for Scotland in terms of economic support and political power of remaining in the mighty United Kingdom. But recently, being British has become less attractive as inflation and unemployment wrack the country and hit Scotland even harder than England. Relief gushed out of the North Sea in the early '70s in the form of oil, and as much as 30 per cent of known American reserves, which by 1980 could provide about $7 billion in revenue to whichever government...
...around New Bedford, Mass. The local Boys Club, which owned it, lent it in the 1950s to the town's First National Bank, which put it in storage. That deeply upset Jacob Rubin, 82, a Russian-born furniture maker, who was worried that the painting was "going to wrack and ruin." On behalf of the Boys Club-of which he is a director and benefactor-Rubin tried to sell the portrait. He got no takers-even after he lowered his price to $100. So he and his wife Esther anted up what they thought it was worth...
...recently, "If economic growth, which has been the means of raising a large portion of the world into the middle class-and also a political solvent to meet the rising expectations of people and finance social welfare expenditures-cannot continue, then the tensions that are being generated will wrack every advanced industrial society and polarize the confrontation between the South ... and the advanced industrialized capitalist societies of the West." IMF directors would doubtless reply that that is a prophecy of apocalypse tomorrow-and they have their hands full warding off disaster...
...only thing really wrong with G & S's Yeomen of the Guard is that it will be so hard to get tickets for it. Usher your way in if you have to. G & S, like Jack Point, are ready to "jest you, jibe you, crank you, wrack you and riddle you," and the tremendous finesse with which they manage the whole operation will leave you as exhilarated as poor Jack Point...