Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AUTOMATED ROLLING MILLS. In the most widely used of steel's new bag of tricks, everything in a half mile of machinery is computer-controlled. At hotstrip mills, such as Inland Steel's at Indiana Harbor near Chicago, a serpent-like tongue of red-hot steel is shot at up to 44 m.p.h. through rollers that squeeze it out from 32 to 3,560 ft. and thin it from ten inches to less than one inch in four minutes. At the end of the line, a coiling machine rolls the steel spaghetti into a compact bundle. This automated...
...message of Father, Son and Holy Ghost comes, as one of its characters says of one of its lines, "off a Salada tea bag." And like most of those senseless proverbs, it's kind of funny...
...jewels in drawers marked D for diamonds and R for rubies. She slept in an illuminated Lucite bed that she had had designed for $675 (which sold for $200). Her wealth was reckoned at more than $100 million, but she was frugal enough to eat lunch from a paper bag and strong enough, at 93, to stand off three thugs who tried to burgle her New York apartment...
...hour later Jennifer was still wide awake. This was going to be another of those nights. She got out of bed, went to her bag, took out the small bottle and stared at the tiny, bullet-shaped red capsules. Seconals. Should she try one? She felt her heart pound, but she swallowed it and rushed into bed. Then she felt it! Oh, God! It was glorious! Her whole body felt weightless. Her head was heavy, yet light as air. She was going to sleep . . . sleep . . . oh, the beautiful little red doll...
...decided to play it safe-aiming his drive straight into the jampacked gallery on the left. Then he hit his only really bad shot of the day, a hooked No. 7-iron that wound up in a patch of dirt below the green. Pulling a putter from his bag, Jack ran the ball to within 6 ft. of the pin, sank the putt for a 70, a two-stroke victory...