Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determine the behavior of objects penetrating the earth at high speed-a science that Sandia has named "terradynamics"-engineers have used projectiles weighing from 5 Ibs. to 6,000 Ibs. that strike the earth vertically at speeds of from 41 m.p.h. to 1,870 m.p.h., depending on the drop altitude and method of release. Some are merely shoved out of airplanes or hovering helicopters; others are dive-bombed or rocketed to boost their velocities. The best penetrators, Sandia has found, are pencil-shaped missiles of heavy metal that are at least 8 to 10 times longer than their diameters. Some...
...Colleges) have made the cadet corps optional for men. To the dismay of combat-toughened alumni, they have also admitted coeds to all civilian courses. The seventh school, North Georgia College, has always enrolled women. The combined cadet enrollment at the seven has suffered a decline, including a drop of nearly 50% at V.P.I, since...
...away with her shears. This leads into a lesson on containing aggressive philodendron: wrap the dangling stems around the base of the plant, puncture the skin and pin the stems down with hairpins so they will sprout anew. Her method for watering hanging plants without dribbling on the floor: drop a couple of ice cubes into...
...stock-swap deal, worth some $366 million at current prices, comes off as planned, one of the nation's longest-running merger dramas will come to an end. Since last summer, the huge farm-and industrial-equipment maker has spurned the courtship of Dallas' LingTemco-Vought, been dropped by General Dynamics and forcefully wrenched from a third merger prospect, Signal Oil. That, reportedly, was the work of Kleiner, Bell & Co., a Beverly Hills brokerage firm, which holds some 15% of Allis-Chalmers stock. Kleiner, Bell President Burt Kleiner, who had apparently bought in when Allis-Chalmers was selling...
...learning the lesson--being told that we had unwittingly adopted the habits of authority and paternalism--only complicated our relations with Shaw students. We found ourselves caught in a maze of psychological dilemmas created simply by our being there, by our having to interact with the students. Eager to drop our roles as White Liberals, we found it difficult not to be liberal and impossible not to be White...