Word: blowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them touch me. If I had gone to San Juan, I would have had to go alone to some greasy hotel and meet someone there who would lead me blind-folded to the doctor's office. I couldn't have stood that either. The whole experience was a mind blower anyway, and this back office stuff made it worse...
...tiny telltale mushroom cloud of ruby-red dust boils up under a spooky cone of light. Robin Parkinson's sonically activated Toy-Pet-Plexi-Ball is a sparkling basketball-sized plastic sphere that rolls kittenishly away every time the viewer claps his hands together. Ingeniously combining a blower and a vibrator, Engineer Niels O. Young flings an 80-ft.-long loop of tape soaring out into graceful swirls in his mechanized Fakir in 3/4 Time...
...Fullback Ken O'Connell took the opening kick-off down to the Bucknell 35. Two plays later halfback Ray Horn-blower flicked an option pass to Gatto who scampered to the 17. A piling-on penalty moved the ball to the nine. Tommy Wynne came in for a field goal when the Harvard attack faltered...
That impressive test was part of a program sponsored by the Air Transport Association to clear the fog from the nation's airports. Known as a Fog-Sweep, the big machine is actually a mobile blower with a 100-ft. flexible plastic tube that pops up, jack-in-the-box style, once its fan starts whirling. Out of the tube comes a spray of chemicals that are close kin to ordinary household detergents. And 70% of the time, they can "wash" away enough fog to let planes fly in and out of closed-down airports...
Should he hear a disk jockey he doesn't dig, Drake gets on the blower (he has 21 phones around the house, including one in each of the five bathrooms...