Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarter and one-eighth of the people at my army base used drugs of some kind, even if it's just pain-killing pills they get from the dentist and, you know, sort of get the prescription refilled again. They take like five at a time of Darvon Compound 65, which is a pain-killer and also a kind of groovy trip. It's easy to get for everyone. Just get one tooth pulled or filled...
...rolled out a bug-eyed brute of a prototype that is not only faster and more sophisticated than any helicopter now flying in Viet Nam but is also a long technological hop ahead of anything in the industry. Designated the AH-56A Cheyenne, Lockheed's AAFSS is a "compound" aircraft. Like a conventional helicopter, the single-turbine Cheyenne has a main rotor and tail-mounted stabilizing rotor for hovering and vertical takeoffs and landings. In the air, a simple twist of the control-stick grip sets the pitch of the rear-mounted pusher propeller for 240-m.p.h. cross-country...
Impressed by Lockheed's breakthrough, the Army may order 500 or more of the $1,000,000 Cheyennes if prototype testing is successful, have them in the field by 1970. Meanwhile, Lockheed is working up other compound-plane ideas. Among them: a 400-m.p.h. military transport with folding rotors and an intercity "air commuter" to whisk 70 passengers from one downtown district to another at 300 m.p.h...
...Among them is an ancient Pole bearing perhaps the most unusual luggage ever brought into the camp-a cardboard suitcase containing a three-year-old boy, orphaned and alone save for his gaunt guardian who has so far kept him from harm. When the Pole is transferred to another compound, the Kapos (trusties) and other prisoners combine forces to hide the child and save him from the packs of Nazi wolves who run the camp. But it is not long before the commandant hears of the "Jew brat" and determines to find...
...succeeded. Last week, obeying the wishes of Charles de Gaulle, SHAPE officially left France, ending the saga of NATO on French soil. While the flags of NATO's 15-member nations were lowered and a military band played a Napoleonic march, it bade adieu to its sprawling prefabricated compound at Rocquen-court, the site of ancient Bourbon hunting grounds, and moved to the small town of Casteau in southwest Belgium...