Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without consideration of the moon's rugged topography. So the Naval Observatory (as interested in practical geodesy as the Air Force is) has supplied a new and accurate map of lunar mountains and plains that will show on June 30 at the edge of the moon's disk. Shafts of sunlight slipping through lunar passes can be allowed for in figuring totality. If such calculations were not made, the error of fitting the North Atlantic to missile warfare would increase about ten times...
...Angeles, moon-faced Al Jarvis, 44, self-styled dean of the country's 4,000 disk jockeys, looked back on his 22 years at the turntables, summed up: "Frankly, I feel like a complete heel playing this terrible music all day. But, I tell you this, anybody who's got a good rating has gotta play lousy music. For five years in the beginning I tried to play good stuff- Louis, the Duke, Bix. I starved. Then one day I played a Lombardo record; a week later I had a sponsor. Let's face it, this...
...Mans, no matter how much speed a car has, it must also be able to slow down to a crawl for the 90° turns-and do it quickly. Last year Cunningham & Co. saw the British Jaguars snatch victory from them with new disk brakes that withstood the 24-hour pounding without too much "fading," i.e., loss of bite. This week the third racing car in the Cunningham hangar was being fitted with a radical new set of liquid-cooled brakes whose specifications are still secret. This car, a Cunningham-V-12 Ferrari, is entered in the 200-mile President...
...grubber that tears up trees and underbrush, grinds them up, then works the mulch deep into the earth behind it with a disk harrow...
...army, of course, Gadein is about as useful as a slipped disk. He marches with a loping camel's gait, he drops his rifle in formation, he innocently lets a knavish buddy borrow and sell his equipment. Trained to become a truck driver, he smashes up a couple of vehicles, runs another over a cliff. Primitive that he is, he fervently worships his tire pressure gauge as a handy, portable...