Word: exhaustive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year 2000, an estimated 90% of Americans will live in urban areas and drive perhaps twice as many cars as they do now. The hope is that Detroit will have long since designed exhaust-free electric or steam motors. Another hope is nuclear power to generate electricity in place of smoggy "fossil fuels" (oil, coal), but even with 50% nuclear power, U.S. energy needs will so increase by 2000 that fossil-fuel use may quadruple. Moreover, nuclear plants emit pollution: not only radioactive wastes, which must be buried, but also extremely hot water that has to go somewhere...
...have a beauty beyond meaning; we feel the beauty before we think the meaning. "Therefore, we do not have to commit ourselves to a meaning. . . . The idea of words being an algebra comes from dictionaries. I don't want to be unfair to dictionaries . . . but we think that explanations exhaust the words...
...U.S.A.C.'s aim was bad; reduced engine power or no, Granatelli's turbines are still likely to be the fastest racers on the track. The new cars are chiselnosed, so low to the ground that the only part of the body higher than the tires is the exhaust funnel located be hind the driver's head. And one source close to Granatelli says that this year's models will make last year's STP Special -which qualified for the 500 at 166 m.p.h.-"look like a Model...
Next to a loud and generously used horn, the favorite way for infantile motorists to sound off is with a noisy exhaust.... As one way of rating your own driving ability, check how quietly you drive. The fewer unnecessary noises you make, the sounder your driving...
There's a Tiger loose in the streets. The moan (of the engine) gets drowned out in its turn by a booming exhaust note that someone ought to bottle and seal as pure essence...