Word: corde
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...Mosher, who are fathers as well as savvy old hands at scripting radio-TV shows, e.g., Amos 'n' Andy, manage to combine low-pressure comedy with universal family situations and such keenly observed detail as a wife's nettling way of pulling electric plugs by the cord, or how a small boy can reduce a kitchen to shambles in the simple act of trying to get a drink of water, or how two boys gravely fake taking a bath by wetting washrags and towels and tossing a handful of "turtle dirt" into the draining bathwater because...
...swinish brutality of a man who Vidgren learns too late is none other than the school's "pet sadist," Caligula, who in turn is tormented by an epic inferiority complex, which brings out the classical beast in him. The tragic ending of the affair severs Vidgren's educational umbilical cord and sends him out into the invigorating world alone, happy to be free...
...other industries are discovering even tougher tasks for the versatile isotopes to perform. Tiremakers long sought a way to control the amount of rubber that goes onto each strand of tire cord. Recently, Industrial Nucleonics Corp. of Columbus, Ohio, one of the top sellers of isotope measuring equipment (1956 sales: $5,000,000), developed a foolproof method. As the tire cord goes through the rubberizing machine, it passes between a capsule of strontium 90 and a radiation counter. If the thickness varies, the detector's reading changes, automatically sets off machinery to adjust the rubber flow. Today...
...model T went 19 years without a basic body change. For the Hollywood movie star or Wall Street tycoon who wanted something special, there was the custom-body shop. But even Designer Gordon Buehrig, who styled three classic U.S. cars-the Duesenberg J, the boat-tailed Auburn Speedster, the Cord 810-worked almost unnoticed. "The job was just a job," says Buehrig, today a Ford engineer. "We worked in a corner of the plant, and none of us thought we were working on a classic...
...Story, she suffers the shock of initiation: an austere cell so cold that the holy-water stoup is sometimes frozen; the regimen of the "custody of the eyes," i.e., never letting them stray from a modest downward glance; the "instruments of penance," ranging from a scourging cord to metal knee and elbow bracelets studded with blunt-tipped nails. As early as her fifth day, Sister Ursula feels "a dreadful sick sensation as though an immense and clammy toad had settled just below my diaphragm...