Word: cemented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fragrant Memory. Raborn got his program moving at flank speed. Somehow, in record time, every phase of the mission had to be worked out in theory and tested in practice. Dummy birds of everything from redwood to cement were fired at installations from San Clemente Island to Cape Canaveral. There were test shots from a converted Mariner-class ship, Observation Island. There were tethered shots, shots that were grabbed by hooks, and buoyant birds netted in the water. All helped give basic information...
...field like a dipsy kangaroo. Out of the stands pell-melled Bragg's fiancee, a 5 ft. 4? in., 112-lb. blonde named Terry Fiore, in her hands a rosary that had snapped under the strain. Bragg gleefully flung her over one broad shoulder like a bag of cement and started to dance again. When he had calmed down enough to be coherent, Bragg declared: "I don't want to push the Man Upstairs. All I want is a gold medal in the Olympics, and then Tarzan of the Apes in the movies...
...Africa frenzy. No one paid much attention, even when Henry's ''Ras Tafarians"* pranced about holding aloft an empty platter they swore would hold Premier Norman Manley's head if he blocked their way. In April, when raiding police found a cache of firearms and cement-packed conch shells (obviously intended as missiles) in a Ras Tafarian church, Jamaican authorities decided that the Rev. Claudius Henry was no joke. He was jailed on a charge of treason. Even with their leader in jail, violence broke out into the open last week...
...floors consist of 100 cells in a double row of matchboxes-one to a monk. Each is a narrow, barely furnished room of white granular cement applied with a high-pressure hose; each is 7 ft. 5 in. high (Corbusier's standard human measure-the height of a man with his arms raised); each has its own balcony, separated from its neighbor by solid concrete partitions. Monks reach their cells from the lower floors by means of a corridor with walls that grow increasingly somber as the men approach their devotional solitude...
...central Java only 50 sugar mills were operating (v. 120 prewar), and some 200,000 mill workers were unemployed. Everywhere, there was graft, red tape and spectacular inefficiency. Shiny new Czech tractors proved useless in the flooded rice fields; some 30% of a 100,000-ton Swedish shipment of cement had turned to rock because no one thought to bring it in out of the rain...