Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attention to that speech in 1958, he might well have dismissed Mills's words on taxes as pro-business blathering. To many liberal economists of just a few years ago, economic sluggishness was a result of insufficient demand; the remedies were increased Government spending, deeper deficits, and possibly a bottom-bracket...
...launch a 100,000-lb. rocket (about the weight of a Delta rocket), McDonald proposes to use a steel tube 8 ft. in diameter, 1,160 ft. long, anchored vertically in the sea. At the bottom, a door that keeps water out will open only when the pressure inside exceeds 500 lbs. per sq. in. The rocket will be suspended just above a mass of auxiliary fuel at the bottom of the tube. The top of the tube will be closed by airtight doors, and most of the air inside will be pumped...
Alas for science fiction! Science has caught up with it, or it has caught up with science. Except for low-grade space opera, there is not much of the good old stuff around. To fill her seventh annual S-F anthology. Judith Merril scraped the bottom of the barrel, and, by her own admission, few of the 32 short stories, poems, cartoons and other oddments that she assembled are science fiction. James Blish, a drug industry public relations man, writes In Tomorrow's Little Black Bag, which is praise for wonder drugs to come. In High Barbary, Lawrence Durrell...
...Horses. No one used Conestoga wagons; they were too ungainly. Smaller ones, with boxes about 9 ft. by 4 ft., were popular. They were not called prairie schooners. When deep rivers were encountered, the bottom of the boxes could be covered with canvas or hides; off came the wheels and the vehicle became a boat. On land, they were pulled by oxen or mules, mainly oxen, because an ox cost only $25, a mule $75. No horses. Too weak...
Scholarly as well as sprightly, the shows constantly match language to life. Dawn Addams brandishes a sandwich to explain the French negative. The top piece of bread represents the ne, the filling the the bottom piece of bread the pas. Remember the sandwich." chirps Dawn reminding the viewer to use ne and pas and keep them apart. To teach the French possessive RTF uses a song-and-mime team called the Frères Jacques, who pretend to be burglars tirelessly dividing loot à moi; à toi, à toi, à lui, until even a Kansas City house dick would...