Word: blanketly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chronicle has pledged blanket convention coverage: Count Marco, for example, taking note of the convention site, the Cow Palace, announced plans to examine the herd of delegates and delegates' wives in search of cows. Editorially, the paper greeted Bill Scranton's entry with hearty cheers...
...many a sun-worshiping Southern Californian, the thick, eye-irritating blanket that often covers Los Angeles and has already pushed past the mountains into the San Fernando Valley is almost a way of life. The acrid murk is concocted in the area's own natural pressure cooker. A pair of the state's most abundant resources, sunshine and automobiles, cooperate...
Private Pyrotechnics? One group fighting hard to bring back private pyrotechnics is, unsurprisingly, the fireworks manufacturers. "Safe and sane" fireworks are what they are plugging-mostly some variant of sparklers-and they have been successful in getting some state legislatures to mitigate their blanket bans...
Tognazzi proposes to the delectable nymphet, suggesting, "We'll honeymoon in Disneyland." But all the hopeless attempts to recapture his youth end when he wakes up on the beach in a cold dawn, wearing a wet blanket and an Indian headdress, and surrounded by a ring, of torches, symbolically extinguished. Needless to say, he feels very old, tired, embarrassed, and drives off determined to forget the whole experience. Not a bad idea, since Crazy Desire is really just a compendium of childish whims...
...other with the emission of gamma rays. When an F 57 atom in the unexcited state ab sorbs a gamma ray, it too becomes excited, then decays to the unexcited state again a brief instant later. Westinghouse's physicists surrounded excited F 57 atoms with a blanket of the same atoms in the unexcited state and recorded their behavior. As the excited atoms began to decay at the normal rate, some of the gamma rays they emitted were absorbed by unexcited atoms, which then became excited. As they in turn decayed, their gamma rays returned some of the atoms...