Word: cords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Parsons had cut the umbilical cord linking Little Boy and the Enola Gay, the bomb was "final"-a mighty instrument of war. Four minutes from the unsuspecting target city, Parsons threw the toggle switch that put Little Boy on its own battery power. At 0915 on that sunny August morning, Little Boy fell free, tail ticking. Four clocks, four barometric switches, four radar rigs inside Little Boy measured the fall. After 15 long seconds, Little Boy began listening for the faint echoes of its own radar signals to earth. On the igth echo-800 ft. above the rooftops...
...mysterious, debilitating disease in which scattered patches of nerve tissue (in both brain and spinal cord) degenerate, leading to weakness and ultimately loss of muscle control...
...half-bull, called the Minotaur. Either by lot or insistence, Theseus becomes one of the seven youths and sets sail for Crete. There he wins the love of Ariadne, a Cretan princess, who gives him a magic sword with which to kill the Minotaur and a spool of cord with which to thread his way back out of the maze. On the way home to Athens, Theseus puzzlingly abandons Ariadne on the island of Naxos. He also fails to change the ship's sails from black to white, so that his father, King Aigeus, thinking Theseus dead, plunges heartbroken...
There were young men in cotton cord suits, belt-buckled and buttoned and pale blue starched; there were sweat-shirt and tennis-shoe esthetes and the wearily omniscient...
Citation: "Noted throughout his career for undertaking and solving problems deemed insolvable by many. . . " Chapman College Leslie LeRoy Irvin, inventor of the rip-cord-opened parachute LL.D...