Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...appears that the Strike Steering Committee considers the mass meetings to be a powerless debating forum serving an advisory function...
...among the innumerable merits of Max Jamison that Novelist Wilfrid Sheed provides a serious, pertinent answer to this old question. His hero, Max Jamison, is a drama critic by function but a critic by an act of nature: "He preferred a good mechanic to a bad poet from the first." Max is a critic in the way that the 747 flies, the tiger stalks, and water boils at 212° Fahrenheit. He could get irate at a three-minute egg for being a four-minute egg. Before he is even married to her, one of his wives looks...
...comedy-which must have pervaded the court rooms in which these 28 men were heard and sentenced. For the Army is so blatant in its injustices, and so primitive in its thinking that the procedings quickly become drippy with melodrama. This isn't Sherill's fault. It is a function of the startling incompetence of so many lower level army officers, and the Armed Forces' supreme sense of self-confidence...
...spun, not to sit on the shelf. So for seven minutes the audience delights in watching whirling tops of different colors and nationalities. A snow-flake top from India splits and becomes five tops spinning at once. There is no narration; a musical score anticipates the spinning function found even in a jack or thumbtack...
...Navy during World War II. Eames developed a traction splint- a natural outgrowth of his investigations in wood form and function. This led to what the Herman Miller Company called "America's most famous chair"- two doubly curved molded plywood components, one for the seat and the other for the back, which were connected with rubber shock mounts to the plywood and bent steel rod legs. The aristocrat of the Eames tamily is the black leather-upholstered lounge chair, but what became every man's chair was Fames' molded fiberglass stacking chair...