Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designed to make you think preplanned thoughts while you're falling. You are supposed to think about the muscles in your body, the tension of the pull of your back parachute opening, the positions of your legs used to manipulate your orientation in the air. You are to count, shout, "one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand, five thousand, six thousand" until your chute opens...
When you first jump, your parachute is automatically opened by something clipped onto the airplane called a Static Line Device. The parachute opens and slows you down into the regular descent four seconds later. You count for six seconds. If at the end of that time your parachute hasn't opened, you look over your right shoulder to see what's happened...
...seconds to count, two and a half to decide, one and a half to act, and two to be acted upon are a total of 12 of your deep magenta 17 seconds...
...termed Wallace's "hate vote" for the narrow Democratic defeat. Nixon and Wallace divided the South, except for Texas. Nixon dominated most of the Midwestern and Western states. Historically, there is nothing too unusual about minority Presidents. In the 37 elections since the first serious attempt to count the popular vote, this was the 15th won with less than a majority, most often because of third and fourth parties. Lincoln, Cleveland, Wilson and Truman all had to make do with less than 50%, as did John F. Kennedy. But not since Wilson's first election in 1912 with...
...that trains tellers to do everything but coo "Coffee, tea or money?" The bank's training course offers a session with a hairstylist and instruction in charm and such profundities as "the theory of makeup"-plus a brush-up in arithmetic, just to make sure the girls can count...