Word: dumbbelle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mark Chartrand, the owlish chairman of the Hayden Planetarium, is happy to unmask the manipulative strings attached to this particular wizard, a machine resembling a fat steel dumbbell, a monster with 9,000 eyes that moves eerily above the darkened floor of the planetarium. Explains Chartrand: "The machine moves the...
To close the holes, Carew has four different stances, two for lefthanded pitchers, two for righthanded pitchers. His varying postures at the plate break with baseball tradition. Batters generally tinker with their stances only when in the dire despond of an extended slump; Carew alters his to fit the pitcher...
"Of course I do, dumbbell. Now listen, H.R., let's get down to nuts and bugs.
A short time later, Schmitt will probably be seen carrying off the familiar dumbbell-shaped package of scientific gear called ALSEP (for Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package). At a site some 300 ft. west of Challenger, Geologist Schmitt, with Cernan's help, will set up the five ALSEP experiments...
He said that intensive bombing in Viet Nam could increase the Administration's defense budget by $5 billion beyond expectations. Asked Samuelson: "Does this mean that somebody in the inner city is going to starve because of the ceiling [on other spending]?" His point: If defense spending can rise...