Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technological revolution has finally overtaken cross country skiing, a sport in which birchwood and hickory skis, long socks and knickers were once trademarks. The skis are fiber glass now, and racers are zipped into one-piece racing suits. Still, success probably lies in guessing correctly the two kinds of wax applied separately to tips and tails and under the racer's boot. Maintaining a steady "working pulse on the trail" is also important...
...third wife-was offered a professorship at the City College of New York. The case against Russell's appointment was tried-and won -in the state supreme court, where the prosecution argued that Russell was "lecherous, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, irreverent, narrow-minded, and bereft of moral fiber...
...swimming pool, the new skateboards are as different from their 1960s predecessors as a ten-speed bike is from a velocipede. The original skateboards were made of wood and had nailed-on wheels of metal, rubber or clay. The new models, up to 30 in. long, are made of fiber glass, with clear amber polyurethane wheels, adapted from roller skates, that give the rider more stability and versatility. "Compared with the new skateboards, the old ones were like cars with wooden wheels," says Frank Naswor-thy, 24, a Virginia Polytechnic Institute dropout now on his way to becoming a millionaire...
...existence to the trauma of the Western Front. "The dynamics and iconography of the Great War," Fussell claims, "have proved crucial political, rhetorical and artistic determinants ... At the same time the war was relying on inherited myth, it was generating new myth, and that myth is part of the fiber of our own lives...
...hottest-selling armor since Wilkinson Sword turned out chain-mail flak suits for airmen in World War II is made, improbably enough, from a finespun synthetic fiber called Kevlar. Developed by Du Pont and used primarily as a substitute for steel in belted radial tires, the fabric-lighter than nylon and tougher than steel-has been fashioned into everything from sports jackets to undervests and worn by everyone who might come under the gun, from cops to Presidents. While even the thickest Kevlar garments will not stop most rifle bullets, the material nonetheless provides formidable protection. The 23-layer version...