Word: clips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bird at Peak. When ready for firing, the whole assembly weighed 65,000 lbs., so the 83,000-lb. thrust of the first-stage rocket motor lifted it off the ground at a fairly fast clip. The first stage burned for 150 seconds. When its fuel was gone, about 60 miles above the earth, most of the Redstone dropped away, leaving only a short section of the nose attached to the spinning bucket. As it zoomed upward at several thousand miles per hour, a gyroscopically controlled device turned the missile's attitude toward the horizontal by blowing jets...
...their place. (Backward Robeson County has three-way segregation in schools.) Despite the gentle protests of their elders, and of community officials around the county, many of the Lumbees calmly began to polish squirrel rifles and knives. Rumors ran that ammunition and other arms were selling at a fast clip in neighborhood shops. When the Klan sent around handbills announcing a rally in a field near Maxton, the Indians fixed their zero hour...
...cars, OIdsmobile boasted of a dashboard transistor radio that could be taken out and used as a portable. Last week Oldsmobile sadly admitted that it was too portable. Across the U.S. the radios were being stolen at a fast clip as owners forgot to lock them in. Olds promptly devised a tougher dashboard lock and anti-jimmying device, which it will install on its cars from...
Roman Catholics and high-church Protestants may give rosaries in all shapes and sizes-from an "ecclesiastically approved recording rosary permanently encased in plastic" and designed to clip onto the gearshift lever of one's car, to a "pearl and silver finished rosary" with "a special clasp that converts it into a most attractive double-strand necklace...
...from pilots in midair, but planted some free-enterprise seeds along the way. In Athens he left $10,000 with a committee of bankers for local loans, another $6,200 in Istanbul and $10,000 in Beirut. Already approved are loans to a Greek furniture company, a Turkish spring-clip factory, a Lebanese cement contracting business. He landed in India with $220,000 left in hand and a lot more enterprise in mind...