Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Sultan, the meaner of the two lions, shot into the arena in one terrible, arching bound. Before May Schafer could move or cry out, his yellow teeth closed on her throat and the force of his charge carried her to the ground. Then, fired by the taste of blood, he pulled her into a corner of the cage...
Michael jumped to the ground, white-faced, yanked open the arena door and ran in. His 14-year-old sister followed him, screaming for help. They began hitting the lion with sticks. Sultan crouched over his victim, glared back at them over his hulking tan shoulder. Then he lowered his head again over May Schafer. Outside, three-year-old Sandra screamed shrilly...
Perhaps the deepest change is the disappearance of the economically self-sufficient individual. In pretechnical times most people were cultivators who lived very largely (and usually poorly) on what they produced at home. Throughout the 19th Century, this type lost ground steadily. Now in advanced countries it is almost extinct. The U.S. farmer who raises cash crops with the help of complex machines is as specialized as an airplane pilot and as dependent on others. This ever-tightening cooperation is unprecedented among mammals. The nearest biological analogies are the colonial ants and termites...
...soupy weather over San Francisco's Crissy Field one day in 1927, a pilot of Pacific Air Transport circled and sweated, trying to land. On the ground, other P.A.T. men laid bets that he would never get down alive. But he did ground...