Word: equipement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reduce X-ray emissions of high voltage tubes to safe levels, manufacturers equip the tubes with metallic shields that absorb most of the radiation. But because of a manufacturing error, the shields inside many of the 24,500-volt G.E. tubes were misaligned. As a result, part of the X rays emitted by the anode could leak through the bottom of the tube. The radiation from the tube, according to the Public Health Service, ranged from ten to 100,000 times more than the rate considered safe...
...were not exactly encouraging in their reply. Waiting until McNamara had departed, Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu called a news conference to explain that the country already has an inordinate number of men in uniform. Besides, he added, it takes time to train new soldiers, and money to equip them, and Saigon cannot invest either without seriously imperiling its economy. "We don't need a general mobilization," said Thieu. The boys on the motorbikes appeared safe...
...hotheads, they reason, are better than one, and together they ride out to gun down a gang of Mexican bank robbers and split the reward. As Van Cleef and Eastwood close in for the kill, bodies begin to pile up like cordwood, and enough lead is exchanged to re-equip the Egyptian army. Long before the end, the violence becomes a bit like a Grand Guignol show-raucous, incessant and absurd...
...Marie Antoinette and Napoleon to Goebbels and Adenauer. One of the hotel's popular additions is a glassed-in swimming pavilion in the garden, navigable even when winter snows pile up six feet deep. But the main attraction remains the cuisine, a fact that prompted the Riesterers to equip every bathroom with a scale-thoughtfully set back 1 ½ kg. (roughly 3 Ibs.). ¶ San Domenico Palace in Taormina, Italy. A converted monastery, one of its cloisters 600 years old, the San Domenico has been a hotel since 1896. Part of its appeal is the monkish ambiance, part...
...Warren Commission Report, Keating proposed more offbeat investigations. He suggested sending an undercover man to Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish to poke around a rumored "slave camp" for civil rights workers. Not only that, charged a Ramparts man, he even wanted to equip the gumshoe with a hollow heel containing a compass-so that he could find his way back again...