Word: airtight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prosecution intends to use during the trial. Confronted with this enormous quantity of paperwork, they have asked for a postponement. The trial is now expected to begin in mid-April. In downtown Jerusalem, Ministry of Justice officials still labor late into the night to make their case even more airtight, as if determined to live up to Eichmann's own puzzling estimate: "The Jews must be a people of the first magnitude, for lawgivers have always been great...
...four to the penny, only some 500,000 of the 750 million issued since 1860 crossed their counters. Where were all the others? Many are lost or lying forgotten in toy cupboards. Some are on kitchen shelves, since British housewives believe nothing makes a jar of preserved fruit so airtight as jamming a farthing under the spring clip on each top. Others are holding up girls' stockings, a farthing being just the right size to substitute for a missing thingumbob on a garter belt. Millions of others have been laid by as souvenirs. There may yet come...
Mongols abstain from marrying for three years. Moslems may call in a professional prayer artist, who prays into an airtight goatskin until he has blown it squeaky-full of airy prayer, which he sells at so much a squirt...
...main deck Constellation became a giant bake oven. The racing flames, fed on a maze of wooden scaffolding and trash that littered the decks, ate hungrily through fire-resistant wiring insulation and paint. Rushing for safety, work crews found the companion-ways blocked by billowing smoke, retreated to airtight compartments (there are 3,000 in the ship), where they hammered on bulkheads in the hope of attracting help. One man was trapped for six hours before firemen found him. Some dropped from portholes into the icy East River, where they were picked up by tugboats. A coolheaded crane operator...
Just before stepping out of an airtight mock-up nose cone at Ohio's Wright Air Development Center last week, Civilian Engineer Courtney Metzger took a swig of water. "It tastes much better than the ordinary kind in the supply tank," he reported to Space Physician John Paul Stapp. Agreed Stapp: "It's no worse than some of the stuff you get at cocktail parties." As part of Project Hermes, a program that aims to give the first space travelers all the comforts of hygiene, the water had been distilled from Metzger's urine...