Word: plumbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage and into a shoulder-shrugging, foot-dragging pantomime of exaggerated futility known as "The Slop." Deadpanned, stony-eyed, the dancers stalked the stage in chilling isolation, occasionally made wary, shoulder-grazing efforts to come together, then drifted off again into the kind of cool depths no adult can plumb. The audience sat solemn-faced, but greeted the final curtain with a roar of applause...
Satisfied that the final score is the only statistic that counts, Big Jim Tatum groaned with relief: "I'm so plumb tuckered out I feel like I played myself. I don't mind sayin', I guessed my guts...
...knowing (nor had Congress) because of the unknowing demeanor of the U.S.'s defense budgeteers. "While the President was concentrating on the Suez business, shoring up the world alliance and all that," said another spokesman in the know, "we plumb forgot about our own bureaucrats." And when military officers around the Pentagon said, calmly last week that they could "live with" the new budget, nobody knew whether they were being frank or just polite...
...earth. Such a gyroscope is one element of Inertial Guidance. The other element is an electronic "Schuler pendulum" that always points toward the center of the earth, regardless of an aircraft's acceleration (speeding up or slowing down).* The unchanging gyroscope line and the line of the plumb bob, which tells which way is down, form an angle that changes as the plane follows the earth's curved surface. This angle is the self-contained milepost by which Inertial Guidance determines and sets its course (see diagram...
...Mass last spring as cracks suddenly opened across the church nave walls, showering the congregation with plaster. Near by, the floor of world-famed San Marco is sinking, Santo Stefano is developing its own leaning tower, scores of palazzos and villas are becoming increasingly strapiombati (out of plumb...