Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy officially talks of the water-launch system, which it calls Project Hydra, as being used for very large, space-voyaging rockets. But military uses may be more important. Solid-fuel missiles, built so that they will float nose-up, might be anchored under the surface in protected places such as the lagoons of Pacific atolls. They would be easily moved, hard for an enemy to find, and almost impossible to damage except by the near-pinpoint hit of a nuclear weapon. Their guidance systems would know exactly where they were, so they could be programed to strike...
...field of 29,000 bright high school seniors from every state in the Union, Jerry walked off with the top $7,500 award in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. His winning project: an ion accelerator made of such handy items as a Christmas-tree ornament and a float from a pig watering trough...
...lines to link its subsidiaries, but Don Power has rid the company of its inferiority complex. Since he took over, the company's total assets have increased fivefold, its sales and revenue twelvefold. This year General plans to spend a record $275 million in capital investment, will soon float new stock, its biggest financing ever, to raise the cash. Most pleasing of all, General's yearly growth rate is 6.5%-higher than massive Mother Bell...
...Vinci in 1508, contact lenses were first made in Europe in the 1880s. They were big, covering most of the sclera (the white of the eye), heavy (made of glass), hard to fit and forbiddingly expensive. Early plastic lenses were also of the big scleral type, had to float on a bath of special wetting fluid, and could be worn only four to five hours at a stretch. Then came the methyl-methacrylate plastics (of the Plexiglas family), the discovery that fluid was unnecessary if lenses had a hole to permit tears to pass beneath, and development of the tiny...
...Dead Sea, customers will float in glass-bottom boats and look down upon Sodom and Gomorrah. A dark journey through the thoracic cavity of Jonah's whale will end up in a wild slide down the monster's tongue. Camels will clunk along through Egypt's Valley of the Kings, taking clients to the pyramids. Donkeys will bear the weight of multitudes from Nazareth to Jerusalem...