Word: fastens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yardling swimmer Dave Hawkins can hardly help breaking a school record this afternoon. The 18-year-old Olympic veteran from Australia has already turned in a 100-yard breast stroke performance five seconds fasten than the standing record of 1:05 minutes...
...large litter of tiny (20 can fit into a teaspoon), wormlike young. Still little more than squirming, pink embryos, the baby possums clamber upward over their mother's soft, warm underbelly and into the pouch that opens and closes like an old-fashioned tobacco sack. There they fasten themselves to one of 13 pinhead teats and are nourished for two months while they grow to the size of young rats. Outside the pouch, they are carried about clinging to their mother's fur and hair...
...voice "from I knew not where spoke to me. 'You are God's child . . . Nothing is more powerful than God's child. You were given dominion.' " What did it all mean? Cobina left the mystery for the mystics to explain, and hurried home to fasten her dominion on New York City. In a short time the young singer was surrounded by famous admirers (T.R. himself, she says, called her voice "Deelight-ful!"), won the patronage of the famed operatic soprano, Mme. Frances Alda, and married bestselling Novelist Owen (Stover at Yale) Johnson...
...held in school classrooms and in between shifts at cotton mills and shipyards were packed with grave, attentive audiences, pressing and persistent in their questioning, and sometimes skillful in heckling. Tories talked mostly about the cost of living, anxious to dodge the war party label that Labor tried to fasten on them. Tom Dewey's old slogan, "It's Time for a Change," turned up on Tory placards. Clement Attlee, making a virtue of his plainness, and of the Socialist largess, liked to look out over an audience that was plainly but warmly dressed and say: "I think...
Stud-Shooter. Remington Arms brought out a new portable stud-driver which uses a .32-cal. blank cartridge to "shoot" a steel stud into such tough construction materials as concrete, steel, brick and asbestos siding. (Studs are used to fasten tough surfaces together or to attach fixtures.) Lighter than most other stud-drivers (5 Ibs.), Remington's Model 450 is also faster, will drive five studs a minute. Price...