Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...someone once put it, the distinction between the minor and major poet is largely a matter of size: the greater the poet, the bigger his world. By this standard, France's Saint-John Perse was a giant from the beginning, for he wrote of the oceans, the deserts, the globe, and of a timeless Man. His form was neither verse nor prose, and to many the vivid imagery was enigmatic, possibly cryptic, as in Seamarks...
...chemical (10-acetoxy-1-hydroxy-cis-7-hexadecene) that can be synthesized for $5 per Ib. Dr. Jacobson has about 1 Ib. on hand. If it were diluted and used to bait traps at the present rate, it would last for 300 years, but the Department of Agriculture has bigger ideas. By liberally sprinkling an infested area with synthetic sex lure mixed with poison, it hopes to exterminate the gypsy moth males, dooming the females to chastity. If this tactic works, the next step will be to synthesize the lures of other pestiferous insects...
...drop will be milder than in the last recession. Their idea of the course of the current recession is that the gross national product will drop only about 1%-a fall of about $5 billion v. a $16.8 billion fall in 1957-58. What they foresee is a bigger drop in industrial production while gross national product remains strong, buoyed up by the increasing role of services in the economy (see The Service Economy...
...assembly lines. Nearly $18 billion was spent on autos and auto parts last year, and U.S. motorists paid another $6 billion for servicing them. Nevertheless the prospect of consumers' spending more and more of their money for green fees and plane rides instead of new cars and bigger TV sets is not a happy one for the makers of durable goods. The auto industry has already begun to fight back for a bigger share of the consumer's dollar spent in garages, e.g., the 1961 Fords have 30,000-mile no-lubrication chassis...
...tests in San Francisco last week, got its impressive pep from a gas turbine engine, the first ever used in a fire truck, and the latest of the expanding uses of gas turbines. Although gas turbines first came of age in turboprop planes, they promise to have a much bigger future in powering everything from road-building machinery to motor boats and refrigeration systems...