Word: disconnect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 100,000 color TV sets (18-, 20-, 22-and 23-in.) that were sold between Sept. 1, 1966 and May 31, 1967. But 9,000 of the G.E. sets have not yet been located. The U.S. Public Health Service has now urged anyone who owns one to disconnect it until the faulty tubes have been replaced...
...barely audible chatter about blowin' their minds. White Rabbit ("One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small") is an eerie echo of Lewis Carroll's Alice, that mop-haired, pioneering freak-out and her oldtimey, mind-blowing Wonderland. The Airplane likes to blur and disconnect its musical phrases, creating the aural equivalent of double vision...
They also found that musical instruments or even human whistling could activate the equipment. Unfortunately, one of their roommates, often annoyed by the noise of the telephone experiments, found that by whistling at a certain pitch he could disconnect whatever call they had completed...
...officials expressed doubts about the design of the backup relay system in service at the Beck plant. But Ontario Hydro officials claimed that its protective safeguards were comparable to those in use on U.S. high-voltage lines. Robert H. Hillery, Ontario Hydro's operations director, insisted that the disconnect-setting of Beck's backup fuses "was well above the load we were carrying." Hillery conceded nonetheless: "We'll need some different kind of relay-something more selective than...
...girls came on the line later with some advice that sounded more official than wifely. Said Pat White to her husband: "Now have a drink of water." White answered: "Roger. Standing by for a drink of water." Pat McDivitt told Jim, "Disconnect your headset communications at the neck ring from now on at the start of your sleep period. No static on that. Did you get the message to disconnect your headset?" McDivitt came in loud, clear and obedient: "I sure...