Word: flytrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hasted and McDowell propose to capture the quark-oxygen atom by launching a Venus's-flytrap rocket that would open its jaws at an altitude of 30 miles, adsorb the oxygen atoms on an activated charcoal surface and bring them back to earth. Any oxygen atoms combined with quarks could then be identified by examining the sample with a mass spectrometer, which would separate them out because of their odd mass and fractional charge...
...wound up with the gothic flourish of an ambiguous murder. The prose in this first novel by Mary Ellin Barrett, daughter of Composer Irving Berlin, sometimes rises a little too high on its toes and ends up breathless. But the book is saved from the Venus flytrap of ladies' magazine fiction by its easy intimacy with the ambiance of those days of picnic baskets and tennis flannels. The author has a sophisticated sense of the tensions that show among even the most beautiful people - like the stringy neck muscles beneath an aging face that has been given too much...
Comet Composition. During the shower, the Air Force will launch an Aerobee rocket equipped with a "Venus Flytrap" nose cone. While the rocket is rising to a peak altitude of 117 miles, four arms will extend out of the nose cone to catch the Leonid meteoroids, entering the earth's atmosphere at a speed of 162,000 m.p.h.; then the arms fold into the nose cone, which will fall back to earth carrying specimens that will help scientists determine the composition of the comet...
...next to Central Square. First, it has been the route long championed by his agency. Second, plans for this route are farther along than for any other. And third, any other realistic alternative would run along the fringe of the M.I.T. campus; the political power of M.I.T., a venus flytrap for federal research contracts, is latent, but great...
Alfie woos and walks out on six birds. One bird is a nesting sort and makes Alfie a father. His idea of child support is to buy a teddy bear. Another is a Venus flytrap. Still another likes to slave for Alfie, and it touches him, but workers are neuters. "Look at it -scrub, scrub, scrub...