Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antifreeze. What he got was not antifreeze but one of the first types of synthetic rubber. He named it Thiokol (after the Greek for sulphur and glue), and with friends formed Thiokol Chemical Corp. As a rubbermaker, Thiokol did not go very far saleswise (one reason: it smelled so foul that it was dubbed "synthetic halitosis"). But since the age of space, the company has rocketed because Thiokol is a chief component in most solid rocket fuels. Thiokol powered the second, third and fourth stages of Explorer I and III into orbit, supplies the propellant for a whole family...
...noises down there in that jungle. They are decoys protecting the enemy. Fish talk to one another and smack their lips. Porpoises whistle and amorous whales sound like a fleet moving at full steam. Shrimps chew on things and make an ungodly racket. But those whales! They even foul up our magnetic detectors. They nibble at old wrecks and get nuts and bolts in their bellies. Reading the sound and the clues in that jungle...
Last week Spring came-and greeting it along a wide Atlantic Coast belt was the most disastrous, dispiriting snowstorm of all (see The Weather). Foul March weather, climaxed by last week's crushing blow, was almost certain to cause snowbound distortions in the seasonal economic figures, move back the expected upturn by as much as a month. Now the Administration needed still more time to examine the economy before moving toward an antirecession tax cut or an all-out public-works program. On March 21, the day Washington had so anxiously awaited, a top Administration economist gazed...
Hagerty has always parceled out enough substantive news to make daily, work-done headlines (TIME, Jan. 27). This time Hagerty barely went through the motions. On past vacations, Outdoorsman Eisenhower has permitted only really foul weather to keep him indoors, and even then has chafed at the weather. This time he hardly seemed to care: each morning he asked Hagerty for the weather forecasts, grinned and mock-shivered at the answer (Thomasville temperatures were in the 20s and 30s) returned contentedly to the firqside. Not until his eighth day in Thomasville did he venture forth to go quail hunting...
...weave in the back court with Fulcomer at high post and Belz posting under the boards. The Tigers will probably not attempt to drive through the middle against the Crimson zone, but will shoot from outside or work the ball into Fulcomer for a jump shot around the foul line of try to get the ball to Belz...