Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piecing together radar and telemetry data, film sequences and fragments of wreckage dipped from the shallow waters off the cape, missilemen managed to figure out what went wrong: the loft. long fiber glass "nose fairing" that was supposed to protect the third stage and payload from air friction and buffeting in the upper atmosphere fell off prematurely, after 40 seconds instead of the programed 4½ minutes. Then the fierce drag of the atmosphere wrenched the payload-carrying third stage loose, made the second stage malfunction...
...cannot win." As for Angela, now a spinster of 40, she could not care less. "He didn't appeal to me when he was younger," she said, "and he appeals to me even less now." When told that Francesco had named her his heir, Angela showed a tougher fiber than even the most famous of Italian shrews, Katharina of Padua. Snapped Angela: "I want no part of him, alive or dead...
...creature crouched in the net at the Montreal Canadiens' end of the ice looked like nothing ever seen before in the National Hockey League. His face was covered by a flesh-colored, fiber-glass mask slashed by two dark ovals for eyes and a hole for a mouth that looked from a distance like a gush of black blood. But Jacques Plante, 30, the brooding, acrobatic French Canadian who is hockey's finest goalie, was oblivious to the shocked cries from the stands. Said he: "I don't give a damn how it looks...
...delinquents as a group were found to differ markedly from the non-delinquents in five major ways: socioculturally, temperamentally, in attitude, psychologically, and physically. Socioculturally, the offenders had been reared in homes of little understanding, affection, stability, or moral fiber by parents usually unfit to be effective guides or protectors. Temperamentally, the delinquents were more "restlessly energetic, impulsive, extroverted, aggressive, destructive, and often sadistic." In attitude, they were far more hostile than the non-offenders, far more "definant, resentful, suspicious, stubborn, socially assertive, adventurous, unconventional, and non-submissive to authority...
Grass & Ferns. The impulse Tenderer is actually more efficient than a cow, since it diverts none of its food to its own uses. One hundred pounds of ordinary fresh-cut grass yield 3 to 4 lbs. of protein, 8.5 Ibs. of fiber and ½ lb. of syrup containing vitamins, hormones and steroids. The fiber can be made into various sorts of fiber-boards or used for fires in fuel-poor countries that burn dried cow dung. Chayen's machine can also digest ferns, weeds, leaves of jungle trees...