Word: butt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intensely intellectual air that hardly seems the right equipment for moving and shaking a major city. But his total dedication to his special art and to his native town?plus an impressive gift of gab?is changing the look and feel of the town that was once the butt of comedians as the sleepiest city of them...
...section of the barrel attached to the stock. Said the Commission: "Oswald's palmprint on the underside of the barrel demonstrates that he handled the rifle when it was disassembled." A tuft of cotton fibers ? blue, grey-black and orange-yellow ? was found clinging to the rifle butt. Under microscopic examination, the fibers matched those in a shirt that Oswald had worn the day of the assassination...
...fair. The most imposing array of rocketry assembled outside Cape Kennedy includes the TIROS and Telstar satellites, Scott Carpenter's Mercury capsule with a dummy of the astronaut inside, the 90-ft.-high Titan II-Gemini rocket and spacecraft, and a foretaste of the future: models of the butt end of the monster rocket Saturn V, its Apollo capsule, and Lem, the lunar excursion module that is supposed to put man on the moon...
...SPACE PARK. Off the beaten track, with no waiting line, here fairgoers can wander among satellites (everything from TIROS to Telstar), see the Mercury capsule that took Scott Carpenter into orbit, the 90-ft.-high Titan II-Gemini rocket and spacecraft, as well as models of the butt end of the monster rocket Saturn V, its Apollo capsule, and Lem, the lunar excursion module that will land on the moon...
...military chiefs it is a first-class defense contractor, and scientists consider its Bell Labs to be the finest industrial-research establish ment anywhere. A.T.&T. has become so much a part of the American scene that it is at once a source of envy and admiration and a butt of jokes. Says Cartoonist Al Capp, whose Li'I Abner delights in needling Mother Bell: "In this country, if we don't like our wives, or even our Government, we can change them. But have you ever tried to change your phone company...