Word: bump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first gentle schuss, he was already traveling at more than 40 m.p.h., and a force of several G's tore at his body as he hit the hollow where Australian Ross Milne lost control in practice and hurtled to his death. Next came a treacherous se ries of bumps: unlike more timid competitors, who hugged the surface, using their legs as shock absorbers, Zimmermann boldly catapulted over the bumps with great, bounding leaps of 45 ft. or more. Crouching low, he plunged headlong down an almost vertical precipice; his speed shot up to 60 m.p.h., his skis chattered...
RAYMOND PARKER-Kootz, 655 Madison Ave. at 60th St. A thunderhead of hard-edged clouds in shocking colors, Parker's shapes-in-space seem waiting to collide, never quite make a satisfactory bump. Through...
...Haunting. A young woman in a filmy nightie sits bolt upright in bed. Bump. Bump. BUMP. BUMP. The noise comes from the corridor outside her room. Huge feet run past, run back, stop at the bedroom door. Silence. Something is listening. The young woman stares in alarm. Then softly a big body rubs against the door and at the crack beneath it snuffles a gigantic spectral snout. The young woman clutches her throat and-BANG! BANG! BANG...
...opens after Christmas, soon after the arrival of her sixth child. It is set in New York and concerns a British poet and an American girl. The Time of the Barracudas stars Elaine Stritch and Laurence Harvey as a pair of murderers who are married and are trying to bump each other off (November). Eddie Mayehoff and Dody Goodman are a union leader and a lady manufacturer in Howard Teichmann's A Rainy Day in Newark (Oct. 22). Dore Schary will direct Larry Parks in Love and Kisses, about teenage marriage (Dec. 16). And Mike Nichols will stage Barefoot...
Vibration is usually a dirty word in the space age lexicon. The delicate instruments of missiles, aircraft and spacecraft function best in a smooth environment, and scientists are continually searching for means to eliminate the least little bump. But deliberate vibration has its uses too, and last week, in widely separated laboratories, engineers were putting man-made jiggles to work. Applications...