Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government and U.S. officials in Saigon wasted no time in getting the good word out to the countryside. Posters, pamphlets and leaflets began rolling by the millions through U.S.-installed presses. Nor will North Viet Nam be overlooked in the satura tion attack: fully 5,000,000 leaflets will float down on the North from U.S. planes this week with the message: "The September elections prove that the masses in the South prefer freedom to Communism...
...item he buys on time. Interest rates on personal loans and auto payments are running as high as 12% a year, and even some big corporations are paying 10% for 10-year money. In many places it now costs home buyers $12 a month more than last year to float a 25-year, $20,000 mortgage-a total extra of $3,600. Most businessmen today have never had to face such high interest rates...
...water mattress, another bedsore preventive was exhibited by the Stryker Corp. at the American Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in San Francisco. Dr. Wayman Spence, a 29-year-old resident at Ohio State University Hospital, worked on the theory that "you don't have to float the whole body-just the butt." Spence observed that the body protects itself from friction by fatty tissues that move under pressure but return to their original shape when pressure is removed. As a substitute for natural cushions, he first tried placing wads of soft pie dough under his patients, then lumps...
...everywhere were the two other hosts, Alfred L. Goldberg and Stephen C. Harrison, and Weil, in tux -- looking as irrepressible as a red and white fishing float...
During his EVA, Gordon will attach one end of a 100-ft. Dacron tether to Gemini 11, then float over to attach the tether's other end to the Agena. With hatch closed, the crew will back off until the tether is taut, then try to create artificial gravity within the spacecraft by twirling it, like a bucket at the end of a line. The 100-ft. hobble may also prove to be an efficient method of stationkeeping with the Agena...