Word: feeler
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...Baxter Springs, Kans. last week, engineers of the Root Co. demonstrated a power lawnmower which hardly needs an operator. After being run once around the lawn, the mower is steered by an electronic feeler which is guided by the uncut long grass. The mower, to be made for Fairbanks, Morse next year, will probably sell...
...fact, it was less a Russian feeler than a reaction to various cease-fire proposals made by Douglas MacArthur and others. Malik and Gromyko made news by hinting that the Reds were finally willing to talk battlefield truce; the Americans had long ago expressed their willingness...
...Ambassador Alan Kirk made the five-minute drive from Spasso House to the Foreign Ministry just outside the Kremlin's walls, and was ushered in for a 20-minute talk with Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Soon after, Alan Kirk's report reached Washington: the Russian peace feeler looked like the real thing...
This week Correspondent Salisbury conveyed the Kremlin's feeler with full frankness. "The Soviet Union," he cabled, "would welcome an opportunity for careful and serious examination of Soviet-United States problems...
...breezy, don't talk too much, don't mumble, don't giggle, don't argue." Furthermore, warned the booklet, "don't be a finger fidgeter, a hand washer, a clothing adjuster, a tapper, twister, nose puller, whisker feeler, or an Adam's apple adjuster...