Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warned him that if he did buy nylon tires, his car would start shaking him up like a concrete mixer. Battling to supply the $300 million worth of reinforcing yarn used in the 105 million tires made each year in the U.S.. manufacturers of nylon and rayon cord were waging one of the bitterest and least restrained advertising campaigns in modern business history...
...NOTS engine (named after the Naval Ordnance Test Station) with a delicately variable thrust. When it blasts off, the rocket climbs the cables as long as the thrust of its engine is greater than its total weight. When the thrust is reduced by electrical signals sent through an "umbilical cord," the rocket can be made to hover, then ease itself gently down the cables to a controlled landing on automobile shock absorbers...
...Cape. At T minus 2 minutes (2 minutes before launch), as the sun climbed the eastern sky, the "cherry picker" (a jointed crane capable of plucking the astronaut out of his capsule in case of a prelaunch disaster) backed away. At T minus 30 seconds the "umbilical cord" of tubing and cables that had been supplying electricity, communication and liquid oxygen fell free. At 9:34 a.m. the last second ticked off; the rocket's liquid-fueled engines flared flame, and the flight began...
...meaning of shame or fear; the women no less than the men crowd round nudities." His fiancee plans a tourist jaunt with a girl friend. Freud tut-tuts: "Should that be allowed? Two single girls traveling alone in North Germany!" At the age of 73, the famed silver-cord cutter is still in an Oedipal tangle with his 94-year-old mother: "I somehow could not forgive myself if I were to die before...
...baby had been predisposed to a heart attack by thickening of the lining in some of the coronary arteries, roughly similar to atherosclerosis in the adult. Circulation, the doctors believe, had been interrupted by the difficult delivery that followed premature descent, and probably squeezing of the umbilical cord. Blood clots formed, as in the adult's coronary thrombosis. As far as they can judge, the baby had his fatal heart attack when only one hour...