Word: corded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if de Gaulle does not succeed in cutting the umbilical-cord to the north in a single blow, he is likely to give it a couple of hard twists. Regardless of what economic aid he can offer, the General is a sympathetic figure to Latin Americans of almost every political hue. His military uniform, and the order and prosperity he has brought to France appeal to the rightists. The grant of Algerian independence and his neutralist foreign policy appeal heavily to the left. Most of all, he has led a small country in dignified and reasonable resistance...
...tires thump after standing for a period, leading drivers to believe that something is wrong with the car when they start rolling. But the nylon industry is trying to work out the thump, and the eight U.S. rayon makers (biggest: American Viscose) do not expect to hold off nylon cord forever...
...swimming pool, he failed to respond to the forced family pleasantries. After Joe had changed clothes, Teddy and Eunice Shriver joined their father in his bedroom. When he asked to turn on the television set, Teddy stalled, said it did not work. Old Joe pointed to the unplugged power cord. Teddy reluctantly inserted it-but as the screen began to flicker on, he yanked the cord out again. Then he told his father about Jack's death. Joe is a tough old bird, in the best sense of the phrase; he understood the news, took it without visibly flinching...
...Trassy's" hair really GROWS when a key is turned in her back. The puppets have their own lines-eight or ten deathless phrases at the pull of a string. The toy car is not pulled by a string, not even attached to an electric cord with controls on one end, but operated by the young master by shining a flashlight on a built-in solar cell. The bear flees the juvenile hunter aimlessly around the room, uttering real bellows of pain when the blunted bullets find their mark. And while six-year-old space cadets are blasting...
When the first Mariner capsule soft-lands on Mars, the multivator will be tossed out at the end of an electronic umbilical cord. After settling its tripod feet firmly on the Martian surface, a miniature vacuum cleaner will suck dust into a thin-lipped opening in the multivator's base. As the dust filters through the multivator's 15 tiny chambers, it will stick to their adhesive-coated walls. Then the chambers will be automatically sealed and filled with water from a small external tank...