Word: dewing
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...years the famed domes of Bucky Fuller have covered more square feet of the earth than any other single kind of shelter. U.S. Marines have lived and worked in them from Antarctica to Okinawa. Beneath them, radar antennas turn tirelessly along the 4,500 miles of the DEW line, which guards the North American continent against surprise attack. For eight years, the U.S. has been using Fuller domes to house its exhibits at global trade fairs; they have represented America in Warsaw, Casablanca, Istanbul, Kabul, Tunis, Lima, New Delhi, Accra, Bangkok, Tokyo, Osaka. The Russians were so impressed...
...scientists described the aerial mapping techniques that were used with great success to pick relatively solid sites for DEW line stations. Norwegian engineers explained how simple insulation prevents frost-heaving beneath their rail lines. Refrigerated well linings were described as an approach to keeping permafrost in place, but refrigerated building foundations, widely heralded a few years back, were rejected as too expensive to be practical...
...winners were Robert A. Altman '64 and Moody DeW. Wharam, Jr. '63, with 29 1/2 squashed eggs between them. Altman was also the winner (and only contestant) in the North House egg-rolling contest Saturday...
What about the lemons? James DeW. Perry '63 Jefferson Hill '63 John Payne...
...talking to 27-year-old Guy Lombardo the night the Royal Canadians opened there. A Chicago critic had called Lombardo's airs "the sweetest music this side of heaven," but still it made Ernst nervous. Lombardo was leaving out the boop-poop-a and just giving the dew. But Lombardo ignored him and kept fogging it into the room-for 33 years-to become one of the most popular and durable performers in U.S. show business. He has sold more than 100 million records, and 6,000,000 people have danced to the live music of his band...